On Monday 05 December 2005 19:14, john stultz wrote:
>On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 18:33 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 05 December 2005 16:39, john stultz wrote:
>> >On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> Greetings everybody;
>> >>
>> >> I seem to have an ntp problem. I noticed a few minutes ago that
>> >> if my watch was anywhere near correct, then the computer was about
>> >> 6 minutes fast. Doing a service ntpd restart crash set it back
>> >> nearly 6 minutes.
>> >
>> >Not sure exactly what is going on, but you might want to try
>> > dropping the LOCAL server reference in your ntp.conf. It could be
>> > you're just syncing w/ yourself.
>>
>> Joanne, bless her, pointed out that I had probably turned the ACPI
>> stuff in my kernel back on. She was of course correct, shut it off &
>> ntpd works just fine.
>
>Err. ACPI stuff? Could you elaborate? Sounds like you have some sort of
>bug hiding there.
This has been a relatively long standing problem, John. I think its
possibly related to some access path in the nforce2 chipset as it seems
to plague that chipset worse than others. But its long been, and I had
forgotten, that if ntpd didn't work, turning off the ACPI stuff was the
fix.
It had worked for a few kernel.org kernels and I had become complacent.
My mistake.
OTOH, calling it a local bug, no, I certainly wouldn't call it a local to
my machine bug. Jdow OTOH, running an FC4 box, has it enabled, and hers
is working just fine. She is I believe, running the FC4's latest kernel
too, so maybe the redhat people have massaged it. However, at one time
several months ago I believe she also had to have a grub argument
turning acpi=no.
There was a bunch of ntp related patches submitted recently, and I have
no idea which of them may have restored the broken acpi vs ntp scenario
to its formerly broken status, again.
Should it be looked at? Certainly, but I don't have the knowledge to do
so. So I build kernels, and report problems areas. The canary in the
coal mine so to speak. :-)
--
Cheers, Gene
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