Subject: Re: very strange error message from ntpd upon running cvs (?)
To: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
From: matthew sporleder <msporleder@gmail.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/14/2007 09:06:02
On 2/13/07, Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running amd64 -current from right before the CVS server went
> down, i.e. post newlock2-merge.
>
> After I start the system and login for the first time, if I run cvs
> update, ntpd produces this error message:
>
> Feb 13 22:33:22 dexamyl ntpd[1243]: sigio_handler: sigio_handler_active != 1
> Feb 13 22:33:22 dexamyl ntpd[1243]: select(28, ########--------------------, 0L,
>  0L, &0.0) error: Bad file descriptor
> Feb 13 22:33:22 dexamyl ntpd[1243]: Bad file descriptor 27
> Feb 13 22:33:22 dexamyl ntpd[1243]: sigio_handler: sigio_handler_active != 0
> Feb 13 22:33:34 dexamyl ntpd[1243]: time reset +0.714964 s
> Feb 13 22:33:34 dexamyl ntpd[1243]: kernel time sync status change 2001
>
> It is 100% reproduceable on my system.  If a dmesg or kernel
> configuration is needed, please do not hesistate to ask.
>

Can you figure out the actual filenames that correspond to file
descriptors 27 and 28?
If ntp is trying to open files that you're changing with cvs, then
that might be the cause.

_Matt