Somebody in the thread at some point said: > recvmsg(21, 0xbff67df4, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) > > I don't think it's normal. > But I can't also say it's something that is causing the problem... No I think that is normal: I see it here. I was kind of hoping ntpd would drop dead in an interesting way. This one is also seen here (lines 234 and 1167): adjtimex({modes=ADJ_OFFSET|ADJ_FREQUENCY, offset=0, freq=0, maxerror=16, esterror=16, status=STA_UNSYNC, constant=4, precision=1, tolerance=33554432, time={1189246336, 574721}, tick=10000, ppsfreq=0, jitter=0, shift=0, stabil=0, jitcnt=0, calcnt=0, errcnt=0, stbcnt=0}) = 5 (TIME_ERROR) However, what isn't seen here (where ntpd works) is ipv6 support. You appear to have it enabled 1228: open("/proc/net/if_inet6", O_RDONLY) = 5 whereas I have it turned off open("/proc/net/if_inet6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) If you want to look at killing it, add this to /etc/modprobe.conf install ipv6 /bin/true and reboot. -Andy