Re: [chrony-users] Will it EVER synch and start serving?

["Aaron D. Gifford" <synctimeguy1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/27/21 2:50 PM, Charlie Laub wrote:
> If you run the command "date" (or whatever it is for your OS) on your machine, is that approximately correct?

Via other NTP synchronization means prior to starting chronyd, the 
system clock is properly set, and time was also set to within 250 ms. or 
better.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron D. Gifford <synctimeguy1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2021 4:23 PM
> To: chrony-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [chrony-users] Will it EVER synch and start serving?
>
> I'm running Chrony version 4.0 on FreeBSD. And I just can't seem to ever get chronyd to sync and start offering time services.
>
> OUTPUT FROM chronyc tracking:
> =============================
> Reference ID    : 00000000 ()
> Stratum         : 0
> Ref time (UTC)  : Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 System time     : 0.000000000 seconds fast of NTP time Last offset     : +0.000000000 seconds RMS offset      : 0.000000000 seconds Frequency       : 23.521 ppm slow Residual freq   : +0.000 ppm Skew            : 0.000 ppm Root delay      : 1.000000000 seconds Root dispersion : 1.000000000 seconds Update interval : 0.0 seconds Leap status     : Not synchronised
>
> OUTPUT FROM chronyc sources -v:
> ===============================
> Reference ID    : 00000000 ()
>     .-- Source mode  '^' = server, '=' = peer, '#' = local clock.
>    / .- Source state '*' = current best, '+' = combined, '-' = not combined,
> | /             'x' = may be in error, '~' = too variable, '?' = unusable.
> ||                                                 .- xxxx [ yyyy ] +/-
> ||zzzz
> ||      Reachability register (octal) -.           |  xxxx = adjusted
> offset,
> ||      Log2(Polling interval) --.      |          |  yyyy = measured
> offset,
> ||                                \     |          |  zzzz = estimated
> error.
> ||                                 |    |           \
> MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample ===============================================================================
> ^- timesource-1.example.org      1   9   263   713   -160ms[ -160ms]
> +/-   24ms
> ^- timesource-2.example.org      1  10   377   580   -152ms[ -152ms]
> +/-   36ms
> ^- timesource-3.example.org      1  10   377   906   -151ms[ -151ms]
> +/-   15ms
> ^- timesource-4.example.org      1  10   377   145   -144ms[ -144ms]
> +/-   94ms
> ^- timesource-5.example.org      1  10   377   23m   -149ms[ -149ms]
> +/-   17ms
> ^- timesource-6-example.org      1   9   377   386   -146ms[ -146ms]
> +/-   22ms
> ^- timesource-7.example.org      1   9   377   514   -148ms[ -148ms]
> +/-   17ms
> ^- timesource-8.example.org      1   9   377   129   -152ms[ -152ms] +/- 9130us
> ^- ip6timesource.example.or>     1  10   377   266   -151ms[ -151ms]
> +/-   11ms
>
> OUTPUT FROM chronyc sourcestats:
> ================================
> Name/IP Address            NP  NR  Span  Frequency  Freq Skew Offset
> Std Dev
> ==============================================================================
> timesource-1.example.org   21  14   81m     -0.745      0.654 -160ms  1257us
> timesource-2.example.org   29  13   84m     -1.115      0.637 -151ms  1141us
> timesource-3.example.org   31  21   78m     -0.661      0.579 -150ms  1179us
> timesource-4.example.org   31  20   91m     -0.418      0.802 -144ms  1486us
> timesource-5.example.org   28  15   70m     -0.920      1.205 -150ms  2296us
> timesource-6-example.org   18  13   71m     -0.322      1.660 -148ms  2290us
> timesource-7.example.org   29  15   85m     -0.758      0.436 -147ms   887us
> timesource-8.example.org   21  13   80m     -0.834      0.329 -149ms   536us
> ip6timesource.example.or>  28  14   89m     -1.174      0.642 -152ms  1136us
>
> I've tried every tweak of my configuration I can think of, reverting to
> the default chrony.conf that auto-installed from the FreeBSD chrony port
> and adding my time sources.  No luck!
>
> I tried disabling half the sources (randomly picked), waited, no go.
> Then disabling another random set of sources.  No matter what the
> sources remain reachable, but remain always "-" NOT COMBINED state.
>
> Suggestions where to look?
>
> Most puzzling is that my configuration used to work in earlier versions
> of chrony.
>
>
> Stumped,
> Aaron Gifford


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