On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:26:05AM +0100, peter neal wrote: > 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 think this is a known issue upstream with too many sockets. Can you try an option like -L? Or use "-I eth0"? (You can add several -I's if needed.) > I have straces which I will attach. You didn't attach it, but I also think this isn't needed. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
