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

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Askar!

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 19:25:57 +0200
Askar Ibragimov <address@hidden> wrote:

> indeed bugreport for Fedora could be filed,

Thanks.

> but I just had a thought -
> perhaps you could also consider deprecate -n in future releases and
> make it default behaviour?

This issue comes up every few months.

We tried to change the default before.  People that want to save power
do not want -n as the default.  I'm pretty sure it saves very little
power, but power saving people are fanatic.

Without a clear majority the defaults will stay as they are.

> 
> 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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> >  
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> > > >
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> > > > Kelvin 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > RGDS
> > GARY
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Gary E. Miller Rellim 109 NW Wilmington Ave., Suite E, Bend, OR
> > 97703 address@hidden  Tel:+1 541 382 8588
> >
> >             Veritas liberabit vos. -- Quid est veritas?
> >     "If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it." - Lord Kelvin
> >  




RGDS
GARY
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