From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 Epiphany/1.0.4 Description of problem: Date & Time Config won't connect to any NTP servers, either clockx.redhat.com or other public ones, even if I can connect to them by running ntpdate manually (firewall is disabled, iptables is not running). The GUI hangs for a while before giving a failure message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-date-1.5.25-1, ntp-4.1.2-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run redhat-config-date 2. Check "Enable Network Time Protocol" 3. Select server from list or input other server 4. Click OK Actual Results: For any NTP server, after about 30 seconds of inactivity and an unresponsive GUI: A connection with ntp.ourconcord.net could not be established. Either ntp.ourconcord.net is not available or the firewall settings on your computer are blocking NTP connections. Expected Results: Sync with given NTP server Additional info:
'clockx.redhat.com' is not a valid server. "clock.redhat.com" and "clock2.redhat.com" are valid names. Perhaps you just made a typo in the bug report. Anyway, I am not able to reproduce this problem. Connecting to clock.redhat.com on a fresh Fedora Core 1 install works fine for me.
Any progress here?
I installed FC1 on another machine and reinstalled it on the original machine, but could not reproduce the bug either time. The original problem persisted for the month I had Fedora Core on my laptop, so I can only assume that there was a problem in the installation, which seems odd since I just performed a straightfoward clean install. But now that I've done some more investigating, it seems that my bug is actually a duplicate of 72993, which is quite old and closed, but was exactly the same problem that I had. Well, I'm stumped. I don't mind if you close the bug since I can't reproduce it anymore, but the whole situation feels rather mysterious.