Ntpd exits with code 0377 not long after starting the service. It leaves no error messages. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 195453 [details] backtrace I set a breakpoint in exit.
Please post your `emerge --info' and /etc/ntp.conf.
Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r1-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p24 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.0 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.29 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -ggdb -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -ggdb -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-a" FEATURES="buildsyspkg ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.leaseweb.com/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.tiscali.nl/pub/mirror/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/gnash-cvs" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi adns aften alsa audiofile avahi berkdb branding bzip2 cairo caps cddb cdinstall cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit crypt cups curl dbus dirac djvu dri dts dvd dvdr encode exif expat faac faad fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig fortran gd gdbm gif gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk guile hal hardened iconv icu id3 idea idn imagemagick imap imlib isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k lame lcms libcaca libffi libnotify libsamplerate lm_sensors lzma lzo mad mbox midi mmap mmx mp3 mpeg mplayer mtp mudflap musepack nautilus ncurses networkmanager nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl pic plotutils png policykit ppds pppd pulseaudio python qdbm quicktime readline reflection schroedinger sdl session smi smime smp sndfile sox speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads tiff truetype twolame unicode vorbis wavpack webkit win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xattr xcb xcomposite xfce xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="sis radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 195455 [details] ntp.conf This happens after a "synchronized to" message in /var/log/messages.
so run ntpd manually with -ddddn
This didn't happen for a while so I couldn't get the needed messages. I recompiled with debug use flag, and ran ntpd manually with -ddddn. These are the last couple of lines it logs. The thing I notice in these messages is that first it says "synchronized to..." and a bit later "...time correction... exceeds sanity limit..." plus that last message isn't logged. clock_filter: n 5 off 2561.547105 del 0.021882 dsp 0.438289 jit 0.025018, age 0 select: endpoint -1 2560.994237 select: endpoint 0 2561.547105 select: endpoint 1 2562.099973 cluster: survivor 213.154.229.26 metric 2.552868 select: combine offset 2561.547105 report_event: system event 'event_peer/strat_chg' (0x04) status 'sync_alarm, sync_ntp, 2 events, event_restart' (0xc621) addto_syslog: synchronized to 213.154.229.26, stratum 2 poll_update: at 259 213.154.229.26 flags 0041 poll 6 burst 0 last 259 next 325 clock_update: at 259 assoc 4 local_clock: assocID 24737 offset 2561.547104910 freq -142.553 state 1 addto_syslog: time correction of 2562 seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time. report_event: system event 'event_fault' (0x02) status 'sync_alarm, sync_ntp, 3 events, event_peer/strat_chg' (0xc634)
looks like this is correct behavior LOG_ERR time correction of ? seconds exceeds sanity limit (?); set clock manually to the correct UTC time. Fatal error. Better do what it says, then restart the daemon. Be advised NTP and Unix know nothing about local time zones. The clock must be set to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Believe it; by international agreement abbreviations are in French and descriptions are in English.
True. But that message about the sanity limit and what to do to fix it, was not logged. It only showed up on the terminal after I ran it manually. Even though it seems to be quite important. That's why I didn't know what to do to fix it and why I opened this bug report.
