On Friday 20 November 2015 17:30:56 Mick wrote: > On Friday 20 Nov 2015 17:07:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 20/11/2015 19:02, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Friday 20 November 2015 11:03:55 Mick wrote: > > >> On Friday 20 Nov 2015 10:22:00 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > >>> As I said, chronyd works on this four-core i5 box, just not on the > > >>> two-core Atom. > > >> > > >> Have a look in the kernel of the Atom box and compare the RTC > > >> settings > > >> between the two boxen. > > > > > > Well, that was instructive - thanks Mick. I found a couple of settings > > > I'm sure I'd never have set knowingly, one of them a debug. After > > > removing them I still get the caught-an-interrupt and failed-to-start > > > errors, but now I find that chrony is apparently running well despite > > > the errors. At any rate, it logs the selection of a source five > > > seconds > > > after it's started and the > > > > > > process is still running: > > > 2051 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/chronyd -f /etc/chrony/chrony.conf -s > > > -r > > > > > > I've had another check through the kernel config, comparing it with > > > the > > > i5 config, and I've removed several more things that I think shouldn't > > > be there, but it's made no further difference. > > > > Well that's interesting. I suggest at this point you ask at chrony's > > support list - they'd know better than others what RTC settings their > > software needs. > > I don't know what your settings are, but using the suggested by the ebuild > new config file (which is *very* much a stipped down sample of the > previous version) mine is not run with -s or -r. > > I tried running chrony with all my old configuration settings and it > barfed on number of my entries. So I suggest that you first run it with > only the settings provided in > /usr/share/doc/chrony-2.2/chrony.conf.example1.bz2 and then modify one > setting at a time.
My first attempt to get chronyd running was with only the newly installed, stripped-down config, which I think is the same as that example. That's where all the trouble started. And all along, I've been comparing the configs on the two boxes and sometimes tweaking things. I think I'll follow Alan's suggestion and head upstream. -- Rgds Peter
