Re: [chrony-users] All network sources unusable

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Try this:

  chronyc -m sources sourcestats

This will print the sources and then the source stats. I suspect that the other sources you have are not actually being polled or are not reachable. Check the “Reach” column in sources.

Denny


> On Jun 3, 2023, at 14:31, Torsten Wolf <torsten.wolf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Bryan, many thanks for the explanation and the suggestion regarding SHM0. My only worry is that the sourcestats output is not offering much in terms of offset of the network sources:
> 
> $ chronyc sourcestats
> Name/IP Address            NP  NR  Span  Frequency  Freq Skew  Offset  Std Dev
> ==============================================================================
> GPS 8   5   110   +444.701    259.006    +16ms  4453us
> PPS 64  37  1011     -0.000      0.002     -1ns  1058ns
> zeit.fu-berlin.de 0   0     0     +0.000   2000.000     +0ns  4000ms
> ptbtime1.ptb.de 0   0     0     +0.000   2000.000     +0ns  4000ms
> ptbtime2.ptb.de 0   0     0     +0.000   2000.000     +0ns  4000ms
> ptbtime3.ptb.de 0   0     0     +0.000   2000.000     +0ns  4000ms
> ns.tu-berlin.de 0   0     0     +0.000   2000.000     +0ns  4000ms
> 
> Cheers,
> Torsten
> 
> Bryan Christianson schrieb am 03.06.23 um 23:18:
>> Hi Torsten
>> 
>> From the chrony.conf(5) manpage:
>> noselect Never select this source. This is useful for monitoring or with sources which are not very accurate, but are locked with a PPS refclock.
>> 
>> Your 'noselect' hosts are not viable sources as they will never be selected. They will however show up in the 'chronyc sourcestats' list with their measured offsets.
>> 
>> If you look at the gpsd link again, you will see they are displaying 'chronyc sourcestats', not 'sources' as you have posted.
>> 
>> Also, I suggest you set the SHM 0 refclock to noselect - it will still be used by the pps refclock to give a timestamp to the pps readings but will not participate in setting the clock.
>> 
>> I hope that helps.
>> 
>> Regards, Bryan
>> 
>> 
> 


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