Re: ntp strangeness
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On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:36:54 -0500
Ken Wahl <kwahl@nc.rr.com> 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 I've had to keep time by calling
> ntpdate hourly from cron.
Thanks for the link, it was very helpful.
My /usr is in the / partition, so that wasn't the problem. I ended up
moving /etc/rcS.d/S18hwclockfirst.sh to /etc/rcS.d/S09hwclockfirst.sh
(right before S10checkroot.sh) as per the above bugreport. 4 hours
after rebooting, my time is still correct so it looks like it fixed it.
(No, I didn't reboot to check the clock... I was trying to boot a new
kernel with usb & scsi debugging enabled.) Now why running
S18hwclockfirst.sh, then S10checkroot.sh and finally S22hwclock.sh in
that order wouldn't fix it without a reboot is beyond me, but
fortunately somebody in the bugreport knew what they were talking about.
Thanks to everyone for the tips and suggestions.
Jacob
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