Re: ntpd with PPS on NetBSD/i386

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 18 Jun 2012 at 16:19, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> In article <4FDF43F8.31313.55E5B8%netbsd.lordynet.org@localhost>,
> David Lord <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >posted to port-i386%netbsd.org@localhost and comp.protocols.time.ntp
> >
> >
> >ntpd with PPS on NetBSD/i386
> >
> >Hi
> >
> >I've had two pool servers as from late 2009 which until recently
> >were running NetBSD-5. I've attempted updates to NetBSD-6 and 
> >find I can't get PPS support working.
> >
> >I'm not sure if it's the PPS support in the kernel or the supplied
> >ntpd with NetBSD-6. 
> >
> >I've attempted to compile on NetBSD-6 from the ntpd sources that I
> >downloaded from ntp.org and the binaries from that compile don't
> >work correctly. Compiles from NetBSD-5 complete and install/work ok
> >on NetBSD-5.
> 
> What happens when you run the ntpd binary that came with NetBSD-6?
> Can you ktrace -i the binary and post the output?

I was using the ntpd from NetBSD-6. I only tried to
build from the ntp.org source after I'd been unable 
to get ntpd working.

I also have NetBSD-6 on a desktop and another server
and not seen problems with those systems although 
without gps/pps server lines in ntp.conf. I then made
symlinks for gps/pps on the spare server and tried 
with as near as possible same config file as on the 
problem pc. This didn't give any errors so I 
reinstalled NetBSD-6 on the problem pc and with 
existing ntp.conf this no longer gave any errors. I've
checked  /var/log/messages from boot of the previous 
install and from todays reinstall and they match 
exactly. I'd also previosly checked that the ntpd files
in /usr/sbin were same size/date as in the distribution
but I didn't compare checksums. 

I was using a custom kernel for PPS rather than GENERIC
same as on my other NetBSD-6 sytems and that hasn't
changed. 


Sorry for the noise.


David