Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8lenny2 Severity: important
bigrig worker-1:~# wc -l /proc/net/dev 54 /proc/net/dev when starting ntp, it fails to initialise, syslogs Oct 6 11:17:11 worker-1 ntpd[26048]: socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, 0) failed on address 2001:470:921b:7839::17: Too many open files Adding "ulimit -n 999999" to /etc/default/ntp gets past this issue, but ntp then segfaults: bigrig worker-1:~# dmesg |tail -1 [2631618.701806] ntpd[25998]: segfault at e75c48 ip 40b25f sp 7fff69b84d50 error 6 in ntpd[400000+6a000] I have straces which I will attach. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ntp depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libedit2 2.11~20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny5 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.34 Basic TCP/IP networking system Versions of packages ntp recommends: ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages ntp suggests: pn ntp-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org