[LinuxPPS] 2.6.34 64 bit not working

[Udo van den Heuvel]

On 2010-06-29 06:04, William S. Brasher wrote:
> I have three machines, and on two of them ntpd refuses to sync to PPS if 
> there is another, external server configured in ntp.conf.
> 
> It seems that something like this happens:
> 
> The ntpd daemon starts and syncs to the NMEA source after a (short) bit of 
> time. A little later ntpd syncs to the external server, and then reports 
> an offset between that server and NMEA of about 160 ms.  Finally, ntpd 
> 'sees' that the external server(s) and NMEA are too far apart, so ntpd 
> rejects the NMEA time source. 
> 
> That means that ntpd won't sync to PPS, since it doesn't have the NMEA 
> present.

I saw a similar issue, also discusson on #ntp on freenode IRC.
I am experimenting with time2 0.160 to see if that helps.
I had a harddive issue with the ntp server so had to reboot a few times.
Finally when it came up ntpd worked without issue.

Need more testing...

Udo