[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#514318: Bug#514318: lockfile can cause long startup delays, questionable benefit

[Steve Kostecke]

martin f krafft said:

>On a lenny system, whose DNS servers are broken right now, the ntp
>initscript hangs for ~4 minutes, delaying the whole boot sequence.
>
>Closer investigation shows that it idles in lock_ntpdate's invocation
>of lockfile-create. I appreciate that it is trying to play nicely with
>e.g. /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate (for which I also enabled trace in
>the output below), but this kind of deadlock seems really unnecessary:

ntpdate is deprecated by The NTP Project.

The recommended replacement for ntpdate for the initial clock setting is
to start ntpd with the '-g' option (which allows ntpd to make one step
exceeding the panic threshold).

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Steve Kostecke <kostecke at ntp.org>
NTP Public Services Project http://support.ntp.org/
Public Key at http://support.ntp.org/Users/SteveKostecke

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