[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#478895: Bug#478895: ntpdc -c kerninfo prints wrong pll offset on amd64

[Kurt Roeckx]

Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-1

On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 06:58:12PM +0200, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> Package: ntp
> Version: 1:4.2.2.p4+dfsg-2
> Severity: minor
> 
> Running
> 	ntpdc -c kerninfo
> on an i386 machine generally prints a value between -1 and +1 second
> for the pll offset.
> 
> Doing the same on an amd64 machine results in about half of the cases
> in a
> pll offset:           4294.97 s
> 
> That's close to 2^32 microseconds. Probably a sign extension bug
> somewhere.

Yes, and it's been fixed in version 4.2.4p4 which is available in
testing and unstable.

It was upstream bug report #881.


Kurt