Bug 72012 – graceful failure on bad NTP servers

Bug 72012 - graceful failure on bad NTP servers

Summary:	graceful failure on bad NTP servers

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	redhat-config-date (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Brent Fox
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Duplicates:	72109 72268 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:	67218
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Reported:	2002-08-20 14:38 EDT by Jack Neely
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-08-26 12:12:21 EDT
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Description Jack Neely 2002-08-20 14:38:23 EDT

Description of Problem:
If you point first boot at an NTP server that doesn't exist it hangs.  There
doesn't seem to be a way to get firstboot to respond again.  Seems like
terrapin.csc.ncsu.edu doesn't exist right now.  Its also more than possible I
didn't wait until the TCP timeout occured, however, firstboot should come back
with an error in a reasonable amount of time.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firstboot-0.9.9-13

How Reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start first boot
2. at NTP configuration point it a terrapin
3. click forward

Comment 1 Jack Neely 2002-08-20 14:49:43 EDT

I thought this was a different issue but its related.  When this bug occures and
I kill X with ctrl+alt+backspace the init script does not detect this.  It just
waits.  Using ctrl+alt+del to reboot and rerun firstboot seems the only way out.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-08-22 15:43:53 EDT

*** Bug 72268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2002-08-26 12:12:14 EDT

redhat-config-date should now raise a dialog if the NTP server cannot be
contacted and give you a chance to pick a different server.

QA, please verify in redhat-config-date-1.5.2-5.

Comment 4 Jay Turner 2002-09-03 23:28:17 EDT

Fix confirmed with redhat-config-date-1.5.2-9.

Comment 5 Jay Turner 2002-09-03 23:29:06 EDT

*** Bug 72109 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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