Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 19:07:47 
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

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.

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Alan McKinnon
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