From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: On boot up of FC3, the ntpd startup fails. After boot up is complete, from a terminal window, as root type: /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd restart, and ntp starts successfully. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Cold boot FC3 2. 3. Actual Results: ntpd fails to start with the following message: ntpd: Synchronizing with time server: [failed] Expected Results: ntpd: Synchronizing with time server: [ OK ] Additional info:
I attempted a strace: ntp-4.2.0.a.20040617-4 uncerimoniously segfaults: ... 8042 rt_sigaction(SIGSYS, {0x8c53a0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x2f48c8}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 8042 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8) = 0 8042 adjtimex({modes=61, offset=0, freq=0, maxerror=16, esterror=16, status=64, constant=0, precision=1, tolerance=33554432, time={1117821155, 463315}}) = 5 8042 rt_sigaction(SIGSYS, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 8042 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 154759 ***