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). -- Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> NTP Public Services Project http://support.ntp.org/ Public Key at http://support.ntp.org/Users/SteveKostecke -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
