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From: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics•com>
To: linuxppc-embedded@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: ELDK 2.1.0, kernel 2.4.21, MPC8245, ntpd
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:32:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F427B58.3000409@ecubics.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F4274D1.4050909@mvista.com>


Mark Hatle wrote:

> 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 If you clock is sufficiently out of date..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.

I checked that already ;-)
I set the clock manually before that, and the difference between the
server and the local clock was less than a minute.

Thanks


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-19 19:32 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
2003-08-19 19:32   ` emanuel stiebler [this message]
2003-08-19 19:04 ` Wolfgang Denk
2003-08-19 19:41   ` emanuel stiebler
2003-08-19 19:09 ` Dan Kegel
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2003-08-19 19:38 Johnson, Stephen

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