Bug#325842: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#325842: Smells like #327138

[Sam Morris]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:24 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:22:25AM +0100, Sam Morris wrote:
> > found 325842 1:4.2.0a+stable-9
> > thanks
> > 
> > This looks like a bug I reported some time ago. I was never able to
> > reproduce it reliably so I closed it, but I have seen it crop up
> > occasionally since then.
> > 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=327138
> 
> I've tried reproducing this bug by starting 2 ntpd's and things
> like that, but was never able to reproduce it.
> 
> You marked this bug as found in 1:4.2.0a+stable-9?  What is it
> exactly that you found in this version?  That you lose peers?
> That there where 2 ntpd's running?  Can you please explain a
> little more?

Both--two ntpd processes are running, but it is not the case that ntpd
was started twice. It seems that the daemon never finishes initialising:
ntp_initres seems to be part of the initialisation/daemonisation/forking
process. For some reason, this process never finishes, and so ntpd never
starts communicating with peers. Unfortunately I have never been able to
reproduce the bug in a debugger.

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Sam Morris
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