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

[Justin Walther]

This is being caused by SELINUX crap.  Go into /etc/selinux/config and
make sure this line is in there:

SELINUX=disabled

Reboot and syslogging will start working and NTP will start updating again.

--Justin

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 07:51:00 -0600, Michael J. Lynch <mlynch at gcom.com> 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.
> 
> 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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