Re: [gpsd-users] Can't connect Chrony to Gpsd on Fedora 29 - no sharing memory data and no polling via sock

[Askar Ibragimov]

Hi,

indeed bugreport for Fedora could be filed, but I just had a thought - perhaps you could also consider deprecate -n in future releases and make it default behaviour? 

Cheers, Askar

пн, 18 февр. 2019 г. в 23:57, Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:

Yo Askar!

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 23:33:23 +0200
Askar Ibragimov <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> actually the issue was that gpsd was running without -n option
> (started by Fedora scripts). This would have denied the connection as
> polling did not started.
>
> Also, when I used -n and I finally did not forgot to run ntpshmmon as
> root, I start seeing the output.

Good to hear you figured it out.  Now can you please file a bug with
Fedora?  Pretty much everyone should always use "-n".

Oh, and get them to update their gpsd version.

>
> Cheers, Asakr
>
>
> пн, 18 февр. 2019 г. в 22:32, Gary E. Miller <address@hidden>:
>
> > Yo Askar!
> >
> > On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 14:10:56 +0200
> > Askar Ibragimov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Trying to setup vanilla-state gpsd+chrony on Fedora 29. Both are
> > > taken from repo of the Fedora 
> >
> > Ugh,  They apply patches that are unknown to us.
> > 
> > > It's 3.17 of gpsd and GPS UBLOX6 is connected to COM1. 
> >
> > 3,17 is over 18 months old, some known bugs.
> > 
> > > Given:
> > > - cgps shows valid data after some warm-up. 
> >
> > How did you configure gpsd?
> > 
> > > - I have installed ppstest and it outputs data such as 
> >
> > Looks good.
> > 
> > > However, ntpshmmon does not output anything. 
> >
> > Likely gpsd config problem.
> > 
> > > Also, used  the configs  for chrony directly pasted from
> > > 
> > http://www.catb.org/gpsd/gpsd-time-service-howto.html#_feeding_chrony_from_gpsd
> >
> > Always focus on the first failure.  If there is nothing in
> > ntpshmmon then do not waste time looking at chrony/ntpd yet.
> > 
> > > I appreciate advice on how to finalize the setup on Fedora. 
> >
> > Well, Fedora does things differently that we do.  I suspect you
> > have a problem with their patches, not our code.  You should also
> > contact them.
> >
> > RGDS
> > GARY
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GARY
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