[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#599542: ntpdate takes 8 seconds; poll() returns ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK

[helix84]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.6.p2+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

On Dell PE R710 with Debian Squeeze, ntpdate constantly takes about 8 seconds to finish. This never happens on similiar machines with Lenny, where ntpdate finishes under a second.

I ran strace ntpdate, output is attached. The time seems spent on poll() cals which return ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK. I don't know what that means.
On another machine where ntpdate works correctly, poll() finishes successfuly (no ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK).

Regards
~~helix84


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  dpkg                          1.15.8.5   Debian package management system
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcap2                       1:2.19-3   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8o-2   SSL shared libraries
ii  netbase                       4.42       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages ntpdate recommends:
ii  lockfile-progs                0.1.15     Programs for locking and unlocking

ntpdate suggests no packages.

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