Launchpad insanity runs rampant

[gene heskett]

My cnc milling machine out in the shop in the back yard, keeps throwing ntp 
errors at about the same rate Orville Redenbacher pops corn.  But no errors 
are in dmesg or /var/log/messages, they are purely a figment of the package 
tools imagination gone wild.

One of the utilities put an icon up that said I had a crash, which was news 
to me since the machine was still working very nicely.

This ntp error has been bugging me for about 6 months on a 32 bit ubuntu 
10.04 LTS install on a Mach Speed Mobo carrying 2GB and an Xp1400 athlon 
processor.

But to report the error, I have to create an account on launchpad, which I 
attempted to do, but when it said a confirming email had been sent, that 
meant I had to come to the house since this is the only machine on my local 
net that collects the email.

Eventually, say about 15 minutes, the email showed up, and I made 2 passes 
at giving it a password, a very long one but it has no caps or numbers in 
it, so I used another shorter one I might stand a snowballs chance in hell 
of remembering this time tomorrow.

It bought that, but then bounced me because I wasn't (I presume) on the 
same machine that I initiated the account request from.  And a repeat click 
on the message got me bounced again like a white mouthed mule.  Mind you 
this whole home network is behind a dd-wrt install with just one IP 
address.

So you probably won't get the report the crash reporter collected about 
ntp, and I frankly don't have another quarter to waste calling someone who 
probably doesn't care anyway.

I have no clue why its sending back an error 1, the machine and ntp are 
working fine, and its clock stays within milliseconds of this box for years 
at a time.

If I ssh into that machine from here, and restart ntp:
gene at shop:~$ sudo service ntp restart
 * Stopping NTP server ntpd            [ OK ]
 * Starting NTP server ntpd            [ OK ]
gene at shop:~$

There is no error, but any time the updater software even checks for 
updates, I have another popup that takes manual closing by grabbing focus & 
refusing to allow a click away, advising me that ntp is miss-behaving.  If 
that pops up on top of the emc control screen, stealing the focus so I have 
to clear it before I can even hit the emergency stop and save a $500 part 
from being trashed, I am going to be more than this amount of upset.

After a good 6 months of this, it seems to me that it is well past time it 
was fixed.

I would, but without specifics in the logs, how the hell am I supposed to 
know what needs fixed?

Cheers, gene
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