From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 24 11:33:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7136D1065681 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:33:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (mail-in-14.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152708FC08 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:33:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailnull@mips.inka.de) Received: from mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.18]) by mail-in-14.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CF0187ECD for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:33:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (mail-in-16.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.56]) by mail-in-06-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EAA1ABAB0 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:33:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (dslb-088-067-112-002.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.67.112.2]) by mail-in-16.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B8E8236E45 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:33:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lorvorc.mips.inka.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7OBXMeo054643 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:33:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull@lorvorc.mips.inka.de) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by lorvorc.mips.inka.de (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m7OBXMQo054642 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:33:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mailnull) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:33:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20080823224510.C7F36C3D@mx1.synetsystems.com> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/8080/Sun Aug 24 01:39:30 2008 on mail-in-16.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Weirdness with recently updated NTP on -current? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:33:25 -0000 Richard Todd wrote: > I just today updated my system to the most recent -current. Upon rebooting, > I noticed that NTP seemed to be seriously confused: Support for my serially attached DCF77 receiver (server 127.127.8.0 mode 14) reference clock is also broken. ntpd logs the supposedly received time stamp every minute: Aug 24 13:14:20 lorvorc ntpd[32943]: parse: convert_rawdcf: parity check FAILED for "--#--#-#---##--R-D--S--4812-p-2----P----1-1-4--48-12-812--P__" Aug 24 13:15:22 lorvorc ntpd[32943]: parse: convert_rawdcf: parity check FAILED for "##-#-#--###--#-R--M-s1248---P----1-p--4--2--4----11-----4-p?_" Aug 24 13:16:24 lorvorc ntpd[32943]: parse: convert_rawdcf: parity check FAILED for "##-#--###--#-#--A--LS12---2-p--4---p1-48--124-248-12--1--8P??" However, this is random garbage. I've truss(1)ed ntpd and the bits it actually reads from the serial port are correct. Somehow they don't make it into the time stamp. > This is on a Core2Duo system running FreeBSD in i386 mode. amd64 here. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de