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From: Mark Hatle <fray@mvista•com>
To: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: ELDK 2.1.0, kernel 2.4.21, MPC8245, ntpd
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 14:04:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4274D1.4050909@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F426F17.3090206@ecubics.com>


emanuel stiebler wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I get a "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" on my system using ntpd.
> I checked the archives, and there is one messeage about something like
> this on a 405.
>
> Is anybody working on this ? Did I missed some patches ?

If you clock is sufficiently out of date..  (I.e. 50/60 more? years
wrong) then you can get into an overflow situation.  While I've never
seen it segv, I have seen it do other 'interesting' things.

Try setting your clock to Jan 1 2000, then run ntpd and see what happens.

--Mark

> cheers & thanks
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-19 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-19 18:40 ELDK 2.1.0, kernel 2.4.21, MPC8245, ntpd emanuel stiebler
2003-08-19 19:04 ` Mark Hatle [this message]
2003-08-19 19:32   ` emanuel stiebler
2003-08-19 19:04 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-08-19 19:41   ` emanuel stiebler
2003-08-19 19:09 ` Dan Kegel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-19 19:38 Johnson, Stephen

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