Re: [chrony-users] Not getting time from gpsd

I've attached the strace files. The commands I used were:

root@IrishMistII:/tmp# strace -o /tmp/chrony.strace.out chronyd

root@IrishMistII:/tmp# strace -o /tmp/gpsd.strace.out gpsd -D 8 -F /var/run/chrony.ttyACM0.sock /dev/ttyACM0

On Aug 7, 2016 12:50 AM, "Steve Horton" <stevejhorton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We need to see if gpsd is sending and if chrony is rx anything on that socket. I'd start both process in strace to srart. Then maybe start gpsd in debug -D 8 and see if its writing to that chrony socket. Strace will show what's happening underneath.

On Aug 6, 2016 11:37 PM, "Chris Greenman" <chris.m.greenman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
$ file /var/run/chrony.ttyACM0.sock
/var/run/chrony.ttyACM0.sock: socket

cat /etc/init.d/gpsd

$ cat /etc/init.d/gpsd
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: gpsd
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog $network
# Should-Start: bluetooth dbus udev
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# X-Start-Before: ntp
# Short-Description: GPS (Global Positioning System) daemon
# Description: The gpsd service daemon is able to monitor one or
# more GPS devices connected to a host computer, making
# all data on the location and movements of the sensors
# available to be queried on TCP port 2947.
### END INIT INFO

# Author: Bernd Zeimetz <bzed@xxxxxxxxxx>
#
# Please remove the "Author" lines above and replace them
# with your own name if you copy and modify this script.

# Do NOT "set -e"

# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script
RUNDIR=/run/gpsd
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
DESC="GPS (Global Positioning System) daemon"
NAME=gpsd
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/$NAME
PIDFILE=$RUNDIR/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

if [ -z "$GPSD_SOCKET" ] && [ -z "$DEVICES" ]; then
GPSD_SOCKET=/var/run/gpsd.sock
fi

if [ -n "$GPSD_SOCKET" ]; then
GPSD_OPTIONS="$GPSD_OPTIONS -F $GPSD_SOCKET"
fi

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been started
# 1 if daemon was already running
# 2 if daemon could not be started

mkdir -p $RUNDIR || return 2

start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \
|| return 1
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \
$GPSD_OPTIONS -P $PIDFILE $DEVICES \
|| return 2
}

#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been stopped
# 1 if daemon was already stopped
# 2 if daemon could not be stopped
# other if a failure occurred
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
RETVAL="$?"
[ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
# Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
rm -f $PIDFILE
return "$RETVAL"
}

#
# Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service
#
do_reload() {
#
# If the daemon can reload its configuration without
# restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),
# then implement that here.
#
start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
return 0
}

case "$1" in
start)
if [ "$START_DAEMON" = "true" ]; then
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_start
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
else
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && \
log_daemon_msg "Not starting $DESC" "$NAME" && \
log_end_msg 0
fi
;;
stop)
[ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
esac
;;
status)
status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
;;
reload|force-reload)
log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
do_reload
log_end_msg $?
;;
restart)
#
# If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
# 'force-reload' alias
#
log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1)
do_start
case "$?" in
0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
*) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
esac
;;
*)
# Failed to stop
log_end_msg 1
;;
esac
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac

:

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Steve Horton <stevejhorton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry..i meant your start script. So do you start gpsd after chrony is allready running and the sock created? Does it get built correctly? Can you do a file on it?

On Aug 6, 2016 10:29 PM, "Chris Greenman" <chris.m.greenman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
No gpsd.conf. /etc/default/gpsd is :

# Default settings for the gpsd init script and the hotplug wrapper.

# Start the gpsd daemon automatically at boot time
START_DAEMON="true"

# Use USB hotplugging to add new USB devices automatically to the daemon
USBAUTO="true"

# Devices gpsd should collect to at boot time.
# They need to be read/writeable, either by user gpsd or the group dialout.
DEVICES="/dev/ttyACM0"

# Other options you want to pass to gpsd
GPSD_OPTIONS="-F /var/run/chrony.ttyACM0.sock"

$ ps -ef |grep gpsd |grep -v grep
gpsd 31426 1 0 13:36 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gpsd -N -F /var/run/chrony.ttyACM0.sock /dev/ttyACM0

cgps shows 3d fix

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Steve Horton <stevejhorton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Ok..can I see your gpsd conf?

On Aug 6, 2016 1:39 PM, "Chris Greenman" <chris.m.greenman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I only included the relevant lines. When the socket didn't work either I commented it out and went back to shm

Here is my full chrony.conf. Note, I commented out the ntp servers so that I can just concentrate on troubleshooting the GPS clock and uncommented the SOCK line

#server 0.us.pool.ntp.org
#server 1.us.pool.ntp.org
#server 2.us.pool.ntp.org
#server 3.us.pool.ntp.org

driftfile /var/lib/chrony/drift

allow

# set larger delay to allow the NMEA source to overlap with
# the other sources and avoid the falseticker status
refclock SHM 0 refid GPS precision 1e-1 offset 0.9999 delay 0.2
#refclock SHM 1 refid PPS precision 1e-9
refclock SOCK /var/run/chrony.ttyACM0.sock refid GPSS

makestep 1 -1

On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Steve Horton <stevejhorton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Not really Chris. I don't see a sock option in your configuration file. Gpsd should write time out to a device file some where and chrony can read the time from that device file via a Unix domain socket. Like I said..look into the sock option and how it relates to gpsd.

On Aug 6, 2016 10:10 AM, "Chris Greenman" <chris.m.greenman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Same thing. Already tried it.

On Aug 6, 2016 6:35 AM, "Steve Horton" <stevejhorton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'd look closer at the SOCK option under the refclock section. https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/manual.html#refclock-directive

On Aug 6, 2016 12:00 AM, "Chris Greenman" <chris.m.greenman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm having an issue with getting time from gpsd.
>
> My setup is:
> Raspberry Pi 3 running Jessie Lite
> USB U-Blox gps
>
> gpsd is receiving NMEA from the GPS, cgps also shows time and position properly.
>
> My chrony.conf is:
>>
>> server 0.us..pool.ntp.org
>> server 1.us..pool.ntp.org
>> server 2.us..pool.ntp.org
>> server 3.us..pool.ntp.org
>> driftfile /var/lib/chrony/drift
>> allow
>> refclock SHM 0 refid GPS precision 1e-1 offset 0.9999 delay 0.2
>> makestep 1 -1
>>
> Chronyc sources shows this:
>>
>> $ chronyc sources
>> 210 Number of sources = 5
>> MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
>> ===============================================================================
>> #? GPS 0 4 0 10y +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
>> ^+ time-c.nist.gov 1 9 375 110 -23ms[ -22ms] +/- 47ms
>> ^* pool-96-248-122-64.cmdnnj 1 10 377 56 +9749us[ +11ms] +/- 18ms
>> ^- 104.156.99.226 2 9 377 367 +15ms[ +17ms] +/- 107ms
>> ^- 4.53.160.75
>>
> This system is going to be used on a boat and might not have internet. I can tell that both programs are accessing the shared memory using ipcs -m:
>
>> ------ Shared Memory Segments --------
>> key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
>> 0x4e545030 0 root 600 80 2
>> 0x4e545031 32769 root 600 80 1
>>
> Any idea why chrony isn't getting time from the GPS?
>
> Thanks

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