[mythtv-users] OT: NTP does not seem to be updating...

[John Goerzen]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:51:00AM -0600, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> I don't think this is a specific kernel problem because I have the same 
> thing
> happening with an FC1 (2.4 kernel) machine.  Identical problem, ntpd is
> running, but clock does not get adjusted until I either reboot or 
> restart ntpd.

You'll want to look at the ntp docs, but one thing to try is run ntpdc,
then issue the peers command.  It will tell you if it's synced up with
any ntp clocks.

> 
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 00:27 -0700, nowhere wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>My mythbox's clock is drifting and it seems that ntp is not updating
> >>the clock. There are no messages whatsoever in /var/log/messages for
> >>ntp.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >I've seen this over the last couple of days, missed the end of several
> >films because of it :-(. It appears to be a problem with the 2.6.10
> >kernel since downgrading to 2.6.9 solved the problem.
> >
> >There have been a couple of threads on linux-kernel but nothing
> >conclusive so far as I can tell
> >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110414701624856&w=2
> >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110217676010185&w=2
> >and possibly
> >http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110306288417182&w=2
> >(although I don't use USB so I'm not sure)
> >
> >Someone suggested using tickadj to change the kernels tick time, so I
> >installed adjtimex and ran adjtimexconfig which figures out the correct
> >adjustment and sets everything up to be configured on boot (at least on
> >Debian) and the clock is now holding the time OK even on 2.6.10. You
> >could also probably just fiddle by hand using tickadj until the time
> >seems ok. I guess it'll need to be redone/removed when the kernel is
> >fixed.
> >
> >Ian.
> > 
> >
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