NTP, and NTPdate not working

[Andrew Herdman <andrew@wccdc.ca>]

I"m using;

ii  ntp                         4.0.99g-3                   Daemon and utilities for full NTP v4 timekeeping participation.
ii  ntpdate                     4.0.99g-3                   The ntpdate client for setting system time from NTP servers.

and am having problems.  NTP never ever syncronizes to a clock, and ntpdate always gives the following errors,

ntpdate india.colorado.edu
19 Jun 09:45:54 ntpdate[5839]: poll(): nfound = 0, error: Interrupted system call
19 Jun 09:46:54 ntpdate[5839]: poll(): nfound = 0, error: Interrupted system call
19 Jun 09:47:54 ntpdate[5839]: poll(): nfound = 0, error: Interrupted system call
19 Jun 09:48:54 ntpdate[5839]: poll(): nfound = 0, error: Interrupted system call
19 Jun 09:49:54 ntpdate[5839]: poll(): nfound = 0, error: Interrupted system call

I'm running on a sparc5 using kernel 2.2.19.  Anyone else seeing these problems, is there a work around.  I did find that a lot of system calls seem to have "disapeared" when I went from a 2.4.x kernel down to 2.2.19 (I went to 2.2.19 because of lack of stability in the sparc32 2.4.x kernel).

Thanks
 Andrew