Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Friday 20 November 2015 17:30:56 Mick wrote:
> On Friday 20 Nov 2015 17:07:47 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 20/11/2015 19:02, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > On Friday 20 November 2015 11:03:55 Mick wrote:
> > >> On Friday 20 Nov 2015 10:22:00 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > >>> As I said, chronyd works on this four-core i5 box, just not on the
> > >>> two-core  Atom.
> > >> 
> > >> Have a look in the kernel of the Atom box and compare the RTC
> > >> settings
> > >> between the two boxen.
> > > 
> > > Well, that was instructive - thanks Mick. I found a couple of settings
> > > I'm sure I'd never have set knowingly, one of them a debug. After
> > > removing them I still get the caught-an-interrupt and failed-to-start
> > > errors, but now I find that chrony is apparently running well despite
> > > the errors. At any rate, it logs the selection of a source five
> > > seconds
> > > after it's started and the
> > > 
> > > process is still running:
> > >  2051 ?    S    0:00 /usr/sbin/chronyd -f /etc/chrony/chrony.conf -s
> > >  -r
> > > 
> > > I've had another check through the kernel config, comparing it with
> > > the
> > > i5 config, and I've removed several more things that I think shouldn't
> > > be there, but it's made no further difference.
> > 
> > Well that's interesting. I suggest at this point you ask at chrony's
> > support list - they'd know better than others what RTC settings their
> > software needs.
> 
> I don't know what your settings are, but using the suggested by the ebuild
> new config file (which is *very* much a stipped down sample of the
> previous version) mine is not run with -s or -r.
> 
> I tried running chrony with all my old configuration settings and it
> barfed on number of my entries.  So I suggest that you first run it with
> only the settings provided in
> /usr/share/doc/chrony-2.2/chrony.conf.example1.bz2 and then modify one
> setting at a time.

My first attempt to get chronyd running was with only the newly installed, 
stripped-down config, which I think is the same as that example. That's 
where all the trouble started. And all along, I've been comparing the 
configs on the two boxes and sometimes tweaking things.

I think I'll follow Alan's suggestion and head upstream.

-- 
Rgds
Peter