[LinuxPPS] pps stops when ntpd starts?

[Rodolfo Giometti]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 07:57:39AM +0200, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> Hal V. Engel wrote:
>> On Monday 08 June 2009 10:43:07 am Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I cna almost reproduce with ldattch that pps works after starting
>>> ldattch but pps stops (see /sys...) when ntpd is started?
>>> Any others here observing the same?
>>>
>>> Udo
>>
>> I tried the 2.6.30* patch set and idattch a few weeks ago and I saw the 
>> same thing.    I would see the time stamps when I ran ppstest after 
>> idattch but when I ran ntpd it would stop working.  I reverted back to my 
>> earlier setup so I don't have any idea why this was happening.
>
> If this is 100% reproducible for everyoen this is a blocking bug.
> Everyone reading: Please try with ldattacha few times and then with 
> ppsldisc. Please report your findings.

You should also enable PPS debugging messages and report them too.

Ciao,

Rodolfo

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