[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#426238: ntp: kernel time sync error 0001

[Mario Frasca]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.4p0+dfsg-1
Severity: important

since quite some time, ntp does not syncronize the internal clock.
as far as I can see from the logs, it computes the time reset but then
does not manage to completely sync the time.

this is an example of such a log:
May 27 13:29:16 localhost ntpd[3221]: time reset -511.395231 s
May 27 13:29:16 localhost ntpd[3221]: kernel time sync error 0001

at 14:38 on the same day, the needed time reset is around -140s.

as a workaround, I had a cronjob stopping the deamon and restarting it
once every day.  this would syncronize the clock at once and limit the
time drift to a few seconds per day.  I disabled this because I think
it should just work, don't you agree?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.102      Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.5-9      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-3      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8e-5   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                       4.29       Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl                          5.8.8-7    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

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