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>error: Interrupted system call</H3>
<p><strong>From Robert Richardson on Fri, 07 Jan 2000
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Hi James
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I am not sure who I should direct this question to: I have Dell
5100 workstation running RedHat Linux 6.0 (Kernel 2.2.5-15),
setup with NTP to provide time for LAN. It works great but I
sometimes, see in the the NTP log file, the message "<tt>29 Dec
16:28:33 ntpd[634]: select(11, #---#--#---, 0L, 0L, &0.000000)
error: Interrupted system call</tt>". This causes no problems, as
far as I can tell, but is there anything I should be concerned
about. I will appreciate any information you can provide.
Attached is a copy of the NTP log file. Thanks
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I'm not sure what's causing this. However, I'd
suggest a couple of rather simple steps:
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First there was a bug on the default XFree86 servers
and some of the video cards that were shipping with
some Dell systems. The symptom was a very slow system
clock. The solution was to upgrade the XFree86 RPMs.
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Second, the 2.2.5 kernels that shipped with
<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/">Red Hat</A>
6.0 were pretty bad (as Linux kernels go). I'd
strongly recommend an upgrade to the 2.2.14 kernels
(which are MUCH more stable).
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So download the kernel sources and build it. I don't
recommend using the RPM (or any package managment
system) for doing kernel upgrades. I just use the
main sources and build them using the Makefiles
(usually using <tt>make menuconfig</tt>).
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In this case I suspect a combination of an XFree86
bug and a kernel bug which is causing the problems
with the system clock. <tt>xntpd</tt> could easily be
sensitive to these sorts of things.
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