Bug 1406

Summary:	ntpd errors logged in errors.log
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	DariuszSki <linuxstuff>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Triaged
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	ntp-4.2.6p3-2.mga1	CVE:
Status comment:

Description DariuszSki 2011-05-24 11:14:33 CEST

Description of problem:
Two errors are showing up in /var/log/daemons/errors.log - they seem to be recurring when the system is booted on different times / days.

ntpd [3707] line 27 column 19 syntax error, unexpected T_EOC, expecting T_Ipv4_flag or T_Ipv6_flag or T_String

ntpd [3707] syntax error in /etc/ntp.conf line 27, column 19

Line27 in ntp.conf is
multicastclient                 # listen on default 224.0.1.1

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
4.2.6p3-2.mga1

How reproducible:
Install and use ntp as normal.

Comment 1 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-24 18:30:33 CEST

hmm, the multicastclient issue had definitely been fixed. You probably still have an old /etc/ntp.conf (i.e. the new/fixed ntp.conf is /etc/ntp.conf.rpmnew); you need to rename /etc/ntp.conf.rpmnew to /etc/ntp.conf, then restart the ntpd service and the errors shouldn't appear again.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

Comment 2 DariuszSki 2011-05-25 13:44:49 CEST

Thanks,that seems to have solved that problem.

Comment 3 DariuszSki 2011-05-25 13:45:28 CEST

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

Comment 4 Ahmad Samir 2011-05-26 17:43:41 CEST

This has been added to the errata: http://www.mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=mageia1:errata#ntp_configuration_file_may_have_some_syntax_errors_not_corrected_on_upgrading

Keywords: NEEDINFO => Triaged
Resolution: FIXED => INVALID