[plug] ntp and gnome2 time sync problem

[William Kenworthy]

Thanks Grahame, sort of fixed it:

lsof showed nothing so removed the panel applets one at a time and ended
up with the battery applet (its a laptop).  Searching the net shows some
problems with apmd as well (this is where the battery applet was causing
the problem): basicly every time the applet reads the /proc/apm
something, a pause occured, causing severe jitter which ntpd couldnt
handle.  There's still some problems with gnome (login causes a time
jump and short term jitter of some 3+ seconds) which ntpd can now bring
back into sync, but I think this is possibly a problem with the laptops
architechture.

Thanks,
BillK

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 23:48, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> On Friday 18 October 2002 21:41, William Kenworthy wrote:
> > Here's a weird one ... ntpd runs fine *until* I log into gnome2 ... then
> > all servers show rejected until I log out, when ntp syncs up again.  The
> > ntp config file works fine on two similar installs (gentoo/gnome2).
> > ntpd is started during init as per usual, or via command line: results
> > are the same.
> >
> > What mechanism can cause this?  Something gnome2 is changing on login?
> > I have no error messages or useful info from ntpd or logs.
> 
> Do any 'lsof -i TCP' -- is gnome stealing the NTP port or something? AFAIK one 
> of the panel applets can do this..
> 
> -grahame
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