Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-13 Thread Ken Wahl
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:36:00PM -0500, Chris Howie wrote: Try booting the kernel with the noapic nolapic parameters. Thanks Chris, this worked. I've been monitoring ntp on and off all day and noticed it was having to step the clock about -6 seconds every 5 to 10 minutes. I also would never

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 21:30 -0500, Ken Wahl wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:20:55PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Nothing hugely wrong with that... Talk to pool.ntp.org every 3 or 4 hours, at a weird odd number of minutes past the hour (since most people tend to choose :00, :30, etc). That

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Ken Wahl
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:57:11AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Sounds like your mobo is messed up. My old mobo (a Shuttle SK41G) drifted ~0.05 every 3 hours. My new board (an Abit KV-81), drifts more than 1/2 a second every 3 hours. I had considered that at first but my gut still tells me

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:18:38AM -0500, Ken Wahl wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:57:11AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Sounds like your mobo is messed up. My old mobo (a Shuttle SK41G) drifted ~0.05 every 3 hours. My new board (an Abit KV-81), drifts more than 1/2 a second every 3 hours.

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread John Hasler
hendrik writes: [Chrony} doesn't seem to talk through IP-masquerading. It does for me (I'm the Chrony maintainer). What is your configuration? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Howie
Jacob S wrote: After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. Welcome to the club. #debian suggested booting with 'noacpi nolacpi' but that does nothing.

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:36:54 -0500 Ken Wahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had the same problem for about 6 weeks. I'm not sure but I think it is bug #342887. Doesn't NTP usually use the system clock as a fallback?

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread John Verhoeven
On Friday 10 February 2006 01:57, Chris Howie wrote: Jacob S wrote: After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. Welcome to the club. #debian

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Howie
Ken Wahl wrote: I've heard of it but not tried it. I did try the openntp package before NTP but tossed it for reasons I can't remember. I'm holding out to see if a fix for bug #342887 corrects things or not. The original bugreport sounds exactly like the same symptoms I've been having. Try

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Chris Howie
Chris Howie wrote: Jacob S wrote: After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. Welcome to the club. #debian suggested booting with 'noacpi nolacpi'

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 09 February 2006 15:37, Chris Howie wrote: Chris Howie wrote: Jacob S wrote: After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. Welcome to the

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-09 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:52:18AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: hendrik writes: [Chrony} doesn't seem to talk through IP-masquerading. It does for me (I'm the Chrony maintainer). What is your configuration? Dead, I'm afraid -- I was describing the state of affairs before mu gateway was

ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. Originally I thought maybe it was my motherboard

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread anoop aryal
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 05:46 pm, Jacob S wrote: Hello list, After I did an apt-get update/upgrade Monday I've had problem keeping the time set properly on my computer. I have both ntpdate and ntp-server installed, running a strictly Sid machine. Originally I thought maybe it was my

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread Ken Wahl
I've had the same problem for about 6 weeks. I'm not sure but I think it is bug #342887. Doesn't NTP usually use the system clock as a fallback? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342887 NTP has been pretty much useless and I've had to keep time by calling ntpdate hourly from cron.

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 19:36 -0500, Ken Wahl wrote: I've had the same problem for about 6 weeks. I'm not sure but I think it is bug #342887. Doesn't NTP usually use the system clock as a fallback? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342887 NTP has been pretty much useless and

Re: ntp strangeness

2006-02-08 Thread Ken Wahl
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 07:20:55PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Nothing hugely wrong with that... Talk to pool.ntp.org every 3 or 4 hours, at a weird odd number of minutes past the hour (since most people tend to choose :00, :30, etc). That shouldn't be too bad. I'm actually pulling it at 51