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On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Mick wrote: |
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> A couple of days ago chronyd stopped functioning. |
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> This is all that the logs tell me but I don't know what I can do to fix it: |
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> ================================================================= |
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> May 19 06:25:13 lappy chronyd[6756]: chronyd version 1.23 starting |
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> May 19 06:25:14 lappy chronyd[6756]: Set system time, error in RTC |
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> = -306.664140 |
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> May 19 06:25:14 lappy chronyd[6756]: Set system time, error in RTC |
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> = -306.664140 |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: Initial txc.tick=10000 txc.freq=0 |
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> (0.00000000) txc.offset=0 => hz=100 shift_hz=7 |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: Initial txc.tick=10000 txc.freq=0 |
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> (0.00000000) txc.offset=0 => hz=100 shift_hz=7 |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: set_config_hz=0 hz=100 shift_hz=7 |
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> basic_freq_scale=1.28000000 nominal_tick=10000 slew_delta_tick=833 |
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> max_tick_bias=1000 |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: set_config_hz=0 hz=100 shift_hz=7 |
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> basic_freq_scale=1.28000000 nominal_tick=10000 slew_delta_tick=833 |
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> max_tick_bias=1000 |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: Linux kernel major=2 minor=6 patch=28 |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: Linux kernel major=2 minor=6 patch=28 |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: calculated_freq_scale=0.99902439 |
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> freq_scale=0.99902439 |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: calculated_freq_scale=0.99902439 |
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> freq_scale=0.99902439 |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: Could not start measurement : |
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> Inappropriate ioctl for device |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: Could not read flags /dev/rtc : |
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> Input/output error |
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> May 19 06:30:20 lappy chronyd[6756]: Could not stop measurement : |
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> Inappropriate ioctl for device |
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> ================================================================= |
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> |
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> # ls -al /dev/rtc |
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> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 135 May 19 06:24 /dev/rtc |
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> When I try to check /dev/rtc I get: |
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> # cat /dev/rtc |
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> cat: /dev/rtc: Input/output error |
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> |
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> I should be getting resource busy instead. |
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> |
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> I suspect that this problem started when I changed my kernel to 2.6.28-r5. |
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> I noticed it comes up with a APIC error on booting, could this be related? |
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Yep, it was related to the kernel, or to be more precise it was related to |
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HPET being enabled in the kernel. For some reason it clashed ... |
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How can I tell if my CPU/MoBo supports HPET? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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