From: "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashes, system set to UTC
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:38:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPrc81N2YDGOd1gy+-G76FBx_Kp3w4FSpLdQKhMcpnvwK=aQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130823195356.GA4765@artifex>
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Randy Westlund <rwestlun@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I'm having some trouble with ntpd and my system clock. Every once and a while, my system time is wrong. In the past (not having time to look into it), I've just run ntp-client to correct it.
>
> Turns out that ntpd is crashing and `date` reports the UTC time, but thinks it's Eastern. This time I didn't correct the time and tried rebooting a few times. ntpd crashes within 5 minutes of boot, leading me to suspect the the time being off is what's causing ntpd to crash.
>
> Info about my system: I dual boot with windows, so my /etc/conf.d/hwclock looks like this:
>
>> clock="local"
>> clock_systohc="YES"
>> clock_hctosys="YES"
>> clock_args=""
>
> I also have CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS and CONFIG_RTC_SYSTORC set in my kernel.
>
> ntpd is in my default runlevel, ntp-client is not.
>
> My /etc/ntp.conf looks like this:
>
>> server 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org
>> server 1.gentoo.pool.ntp.org
>> server 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org
>> server 3.gentoo.pool.ntp.org
>> driftfile /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
>> restrict default nomodify nopeer noquery
>> restrict 127.0.0.1
>
> What am I doing wrong? Where should I look for more information on the problem?
ntpd should not crash no matter what, but what is /etc/localtime?
Regards.
--
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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2013-08-23 19:53 [gentoo-user] ntpd crashes, system set to UTC Randy Westlund
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