[ntp:questions] ntptime didn´t show ppssignal

Heiko Gerstung heiko.removethistext.gerstung at meinberg.de
Fri Aug 27 12:12:01 UTC 2010


Hi Frank,

Am 23.08.2010 14:30, schrieb Burkhardt, Frank:
> Dear Listmembers,
> 
> first of all sorry for my bad english, but I'm not a native speaker and not trained so well ;-)
> 
> I tried to get ntpd working with a pps signal (atom driver) under Ubuntu 10.04 since one week without success. I'm using a self compiled kernel 2.6.34.3 with pps support and pps_client ldisc built in. "pstest" shows following data, so I think it is generally working:
> 
> root at chaser:/home/fast# /export/pps-tools/ppstest /dev/pps0
> trying PPS source "/dev/pps0"
> found PPS source "/dev/pps0"
> ok, found 1 source(s), now start fetching data...
> source 0 - assert 1282565685.198781684, sequence: 352669 - clear  1282213025.923967757, sequence: 10
> source 0 - assert 1282565686.198843801, sequence: 352670 - clear  1282213025.923967757, sequence: 10
> source 0 - assert 1282565687.198921096, sequence: 352671 - clear  1282213025.923967757, sequence: 10

That shows that your PPS support is working fine on kernel level.

> I compiled ntpd with --enable-atom option, but when I start ntpd it shows following error in the log:
> 
> 16 Aug 10:36:00 ntpd[17210]: refclock_newpeer: clock type 22 invalid
This clearly shows that you have no ATOM_PPS refclock support.

> 16 Aug 10:36:00 ntpd[17210]: 127.127.22.0 interface 127.0.0.1 -> (null)
> 
> But i think the problem has maybe nothing to do with ntpd directly so far, because ntptime shows only PLL, NANO and not PPSXXXX in the status field: 
> 
> ntp_gettime() returns code 0 (OK)
>   time d01ce7a9.c30c885c  Mon, Aug 23 2010 14:27:21.761, (.761910415),
>   maximum error 257004 us, estimated error 458 us
> ntp_adjtime() returns code 0 (OK)
>   modes 0x0 (),
>   offset -42.572 us, frequency 17.326 ppm, interval 1 s,
>   maximum error 257004 us, estimated error 458 us,
>   status 0x2001 (PLL,NANO),
>   time constant 6, precision 0.001 us, tolerance 500 ppm
I do not see this in the output of ntptime on my (PPS-enabled) system, I
guess ntptime does not know about the newer PPS implementation.

> So is the kernel not detecting the PPS, even though ppstest shows the signal etc.?
> 
> I don´t know how I can proceed, miss I something else, do someone have any hints for me?
> 
> Many thanks in advance and kind regards from Berlin,
> Frank
> 

You definitely have no ATOM_PPS refclock support in your ntpd but it
looks like your kernel supports PPS and it works fine. Please re-run
configure and check its output. I would suspect that the configure
script looks for certain include files in your kernel header dir(s) and
does not find them. That results in disabling ATOM at configuration time
(can be verified by looking into the generated config.h file of NTP).

Best Regards,
  Heiko




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