[ntp:questions] Hopelessly broken clock?

Chris Richmond tomnykds at comcast.net
Wed Nov 19 02:17:30 UTC 2008


hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net (Hal Murray) wrote in
news:u4OdnSeEaKXHNL3UnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d at megapath.net: 

>   clocksource=acpi_pm
> to the boot command line.

So, I tried setting clocksource=tsc, and the system hung on boot.
I reviewed the BIOS settings and found that ACPI was disabled, probably
because I thought it was needed because of the acpi=off kernel args.
So, I re-enabled ACPI in BIOS.  That didn't fix the boot issues, but it
does seem to have enabled ntp to run.  Now I'm getting errors about writing
the drift file from SELinux, but that's a seperate issue.  So, I think
I'm back in business.

/usr/sbin/ntpq -p -n
remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset  jitter
==========================================================================
*192.168.0.1     .PPS.       1 u   94  128  377    0.193   -0.837   5.872
 127.127.1.0     .LOCL.     10 l   16   64  377    0.000    0.000   0.000

Thanks for the clues, Chris




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