Bug 134418

Summary: ntpdate killed x server
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Carl Gherardi <carlos>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
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Description Carl Gherardi 2004-10-02 04:29:05 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040929
Firefox/0.10

Description of problem:
When running ntpdate server as root from an xterm (GNOME environment)

X spontaneously restarted.

I was running evolution, rhythmbox, firefox and xterms at the time
(plus various applets)

My clock was out by about 15 minutes at the time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-1 xorg-x11-6.8.1-4

How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Let clock get out of sync by 15 mnutes
2. Be logged in to gnome session
3. ntpdate servername
    

Actual Results:  Spontaneous restart of xserver.

Expected Results:  Time change, perhaps a few minor problems with apps.

Additional info:

Can provide as necessary - let me know what you need.

Comment 1 Carl Gherardi 2004-10-02 04:32:54 UTC
Just remembered - I saw the response to ntpdate pop up on the terminal
before the crash

Something like:

2 Oct 12:33:06 ntpdate[18496]: adjust time server 10.61.0.113 offset
0.027329 sec

(Response when trying to trigger this with a small offset)

Comment 2 Carl Gherardi 2004-10-03 05:54:28 UTC
More info:

Let my clock drift by 15 minutes again, and similar results. This time
X recovered, but took several minutes to do so.

During this period, rhythbox stopped playing completely, I was alerted
that X had recovered (no screensaver, using xlock) by my music restarting.

Using rawhide updated 2 hour ago.

Hardware: Dell Inspiron 5000e

Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2005-04-11 02:06:39 UTC
Attach your X server log, config file, /var/log/messages, and the output
of lsmod to the report as individual uncompressed file attachments using
the link below.


Comment 5 Mike A. Harris 2005-04-11 02:08:10 UTC
Setting status to "NEEDINFO", awaiting file attachments requested above.

TIA

Comment 6 Carl Gherardi 2005-04-11 02:52:28 UTC
The problem seems to have stopped between when I reported this and now.

If the problem recurs i'll create a new bug. Close for now.

Carl G

Comment 7 Mike A. Harris 2005-04-11 08:30:14 UTC
Ok, I'll set this to "RAWHIDE" for now.  If the problem recurs, please
report it to X.Org via http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component,
and supply full details for reproduceability.  This will ensure the problem
is visible to maximum number of X developers which will accelerate the
likelyhood of an early resolution.

Thanks.