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Bug 55295

Summary: ntpd won't restart
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Eric Pretorious <epretorious>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: SpanKY <vapier>
Status: VERIFIED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Eric Pretorious 2004-06-26 19:37:23 UTC
/etc/init.d/ntpd won't restart

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start ntpd (during boot)
2. restart ntpd (/etc/init.d/ntpd restart)
Actual Results:  
/etc/init.d/ntpd restart 
 * Stopping ntpd...                                                                             [ ok ] 
 * Starting ntpd... 
 * Failed to start ntpd 

Expected Results:  
ntpd should have just restarted. 

No info. in /var/log/ntpd.log (except that ntpd failed to start) 
No info. in /var/log/syslog (except that ntpd failed to start)
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-07-17 22:08:28 UTC
you neglected to provide `emerge info`

also, i dont know what version of ntpd you're using

what does `ps aux` show when you `/etc/init.d/ntpd stop` ?

can you post your /etc/ntp.conf ?
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-11-10 15:22:56 UTC
old