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. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com