ntpd sync fails on boot

Sat Jan 10 00:24:06 UTC 2009

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:57:02 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:38:23 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 
[...]
>> as root...
>> # fixfiles onboot
>> # shutdown now -r
[...]

fixfiles onreboot is not available on my fixfiles.
I did: fixfiles restore
and then rebooted.  It cleaned up the log some,
but the failure persists.

boot messages excerpt:

Jan  9 19:12:16 mbrc32 hpiod: 1.7.4a accepting connections at 2208...
Jan  9 19:12:17 mbrc32 ntpdate[2220]: sendto(mbrc21): Operation not 
permitted
Jan  9 19:12:20 mbrc32 last message repeated 3 times
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpdate[2220]: no server suitable for 
synchronization found
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2223]: ntpd 4.2.4p2 at 1.1495-o Thu Jun 21 
10:53:04 UTC 2007 (1)
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2224]: precision = 1.000 usec
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2224]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 
0.0.0.0#123 Disabled
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2224]: Listening on interface #1 
wildcard, ::#123 Disabled
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2224]: Listening on interface #2 lo, ::1#123 
Enabled
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2224]: Listening on interface #3 eth0, 
fe80::20e:a6ff:fe82:ab1c#123 Enabled
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2224]: Listening on interface #4 lo, 
127.0.0.1#123 Enabled
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2224]: Listening on interface #5 eth0, 
192.168.9.32#123 Enabled
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2224]: kernel time sync status 0040
Jan  9 19:12:21 mbrc32 ntpd[2224]: frequency initialized 184.463 PPM 
from /var/lib/ntp/drift
Jan  9 19:12:22 mbrc32 kernel: tun: Universal TUN/TAP device driver, 1.6

Mike.