Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > On Mar 27, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: >> Kevin Kiely wrote: >>> After monitoring the serial console on the ALIX board, I see that >>> Astlinux hangs on Starting ntpd.. without a WAN connection and >>> will not >>> continue. Is this the correct operation for the current version? >>> >> Lonnie, do you have any ideas on how to resolve this hang? I thought >> ntp would gracefully exit if the ntp server could not be reached >> immediately. (or is this because the ntp server is specified by name >> and not by IP address?) > > A couple months ago I did offer a change to ntpd.init to address this > issue... > > ntpd.init snippet found here: > http://lonnie.abelbeck.com/share/ntpd_start.txt > > I believe I have tried all the permutations, Static IP, DHCP IP, > numeric NTPd IP, name NTPd IP, Static DNS, etc. > > The delay is anywhere from 1 sec to 3 minutes, depending on the > network error and configuration. > --- > Now, given that, I did not incorporate this fix/test in my personal > builds for the simple reason that without a network connection at > startup you will probably have to reboot to get things working anyway. > > Using unionfs, a person can 'edit' their /etc/init.d/ntpd file to > test the above fix... just remember to delete /oldroot/mnt/asturw/etc/ > init.d/ntpd if you update to a newer version later. > > Lonnie
Thanks Lonnie. For some reason I thought we had committed your changes already. Let me put those changes the svn and build new images this afternoon. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
