Re: NTP broken with 2.6.14

john stultz
2005-11-03T20:11:18Z

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 14:51 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:32:28AM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > Yep. Thats what I was guessing. For some reason time is running too
> > quickly on your system. Since it is more then +/-500ppm NTP gives up and
> > won't sync.
> >
> > Time running too fast can have a number of causes.
> >
> > Could you open a bugme bug on this and tag me as the owner?
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org
> >
> > Also attach dmesg output and we'll see if that doesn't provide more
> > clues.
>
> I have no idea if this is related at all, but I have had system time
> speed issues on my machine for a while too.
>
> With 2.6.8 it always ran fine, with 2.6.12 it seemed to gain around 10
> minutes per hour, and so far today with 2.6.14 it seems to be gaining
> about 3 or 4 minutes per hour. These are all Debian kernels, although I
> hope they haven't added/removed anything that would affect this.
>
> This is happening on an Asus A7N8X-E-DX with an Athlon XP 2800+. I have
> acpi enabled, so who knows if that is what is breaking things. There
> does seem to have been time keeping issues on ati chipsets big time in
> recent kernels, and some other acpi issues at times, so it wouldn't
> surprise me if a fix for one issue causes problems on another chipset.
> The chipset on this board is the nforce2.

Yea, we have some issues with a few specific chipsets, but those were
not regressions to my knowledge.

Hmm. Check bug #5038 to see if sounds familiar.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5038

thanks
-john