ELDK 2.1.0, kernel 2.4.21, MPC8245, ntpd

Hi all,
I get a "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" on my system using ntpd. I checked the archives, and there is one messeage about something like this on a 405.

Is anybody working on this ? Did I missed some patches ?

cheers & thanks

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If you clock is sufficiently out of date.. (I.e. 50/60 more? years wrong) then you can get into an overflow situation. While I've never seen it segv, I have seen it do other 'interesting' things.

Try setting your clock to Jan 1 2000, then run ntpd and see what happens.

--Mark

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Dear Emanuel,

This is caused by some (I2C based RTC's in "11 minute mode".

We fixed this by making this mode configurable (and disable it by default) in our version of the linuxppc_2_4_devel tree; the patch was added on May 29, so just "cvs update" your source tree.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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No idea, but if you're using ELDK binaries, you might check with their mailing list.

And then there's always compiling ntpd yourself and running it under gdb or gdbserver to see where it's crashing...
- Dan

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I checked that already ;-)
I set the clock manually before that, and the difference between the server and the local clock was less than a minute.

Thanks

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Sorry Wolfgang,

this one is a STMicro M48T86 (ds12887 compatible), and is sitting on the local bus ...

I have to check again, but the kernel was made on july 15. And usually I update my sources before build. But I check again ...

Thanks,
emanuel

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