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

["Charlie Laub" <charleslaub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you run the command "date" (or whatever it is for your OS) on your machine, is that approximately correct? 


-----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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