[ntp:hackers] FW: The status in "ntpq -c rv" goes to "leap_alarm"

Havard Eidnes he at uninett.no
Thu Aug 26 07:32:04 UTC 2010


> The status is always "leap_alarm". I think, that means leap is
> not in sync. Please suggest me why is it so?  Is it anything to
> do with the realtime clock in the system? Is it something to do
> with linux kernel in my system.  Please someone help me out. I
> am not able to make any progress.

I have not looked closer at the source, but my gut reaction is
"endian bug".  Powerpc is big-endian 32-bit, isn't it?  It is
therefore likely to expose this type of problems since most of
the rest of the world these days runs i386 or amd64, both of
which are little-endian.

Regards,

- Håvard


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