r209244 ia64 and r209229 amd64 -> ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Thu Jun 24 12:43:42 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:21:02AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 07:07:07PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> > On 16/06/2010 18:15:32, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 06:08:35PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> > >> On 16/06/2010 17:59:10, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> > >>> After a recent upgrade to r209156 I get this error:
> > >>>
> > >>> $ ntpq -p
> > >>> ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable
> > >>>
> > >>> Please advise
> > >>
> > >> What does 'ifconfig -a' and 'netstat -rn' say?
> > > 
> > > $ ifconfig -a
> > > em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> > >         options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC>
> > >         ether 00:13:21:5b:05:1c
> > >         inet 137.222.187.28 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 137.222.187.255
> > >         inet6 fe80::213:21ff:fe5b:51c%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
> > >         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> > >         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
> > >         status: active
> > > em1: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> > >         options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC>
> > >         ether 00:13:21:5b:05:1d
> > >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> > >         status: active
> > > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> > >         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
> > >         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
> > >         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
> > >         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 
> > >         nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> > > 
> > > $ netstat -rn
> > > Routing tables
> > > 
> > > Internet:
> > > Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
> > > default            137.222.187.250    UGS         0    65512    em0
> > > 127.0.0.1          link#3             UH          0      293    lo0
> > > 137.222.187.0/24   link#1             U           0    10861    em0
> > > 137.222.187.28     link#1             UHS         0        0    lo0
> > > 
> > > Internet6:
> > > Destination                       Gateway                       Flags      Netif Expire
> > > ::/96                             ::1                           UGRS        lo0
> > > ::1                               ::1                           UH          lo0
> > > ::ffff:0.0.0.0/96                 ::1                           UGRS        lo0
> > > fe80::/10                         ::1                           UGRS        lo0
> > > fe80::%em0/64                     link#1                        U           em0
> > > fe80::213:21ff:fe5b:51c%em0       link#1                        UHS         lo0
> > > fe80::%lo0/64                     link#3                        U           lo0
> > > fe80::1%lo0                       link#3                        UHS         lo0
> > > ff01:1::/32                       fe80::213:21ff:fe5b:51c%em0   U           em0
> > > ff01:3::/32                       ::1                           U           lo0
> > > ff02::/16                         ::1                           UGRS        lo0
> > > ff02::%em0/32                     fe80::213:21ff:fe5b:51c%em0   U           em0
> > > ff02::%lo0/32                     ::1                           U           lo0
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>  What happens if you try and ping localhost?
> > > 
> > > $ ping -c5 localhost
> > > PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> > > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.109 ms
> > > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.103 ms
> > > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.060 ms
> > > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms
> > > 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms
> > > 
> > > --- localhost ping statistics ---
> > > 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> > > round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.059/0.078/0.109/0.023 ms
> > 
> > Nothing obviously wrong there.  Perhaps ntpd is not running?
> > (Not sure quite why that should cause an error message about
> > reachability of localhost: I suppose it's not completely unreasonable
> > though.)
> > 
> > If ntpd is running, then try restarting it.  If the problem still
> > persists, then it looks like you've found a bug.
> 
> # ps ax | grep ntp
> 55043  ??  Rs     0:00.02 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drif
> 55050   0  R+     0:00.00 grep ntp
> # ntpq -p
> ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable
> # /etc/rc.d/ntpd restart
> Stopping ntpd.
> Waiting for PIDS: 55043.
> Starting ntpd.
> # ps ax | grep ntp
> 55113  ??  Ss     0:00.02 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -f /var/db/ntpd.drif
> 55127   0  R+     0:00.00 grep ntp
> # ntpq -p
> ntpq: write to localhost failed: Network is unreachable
> # 

just to ask if anybody else is seeing this on ia64 or amd64?

I'm using /etc/ntp.conf as supplied, no modifications.

Seems to work ok on
i386	r209398
sparc64	r204991M
ia64	r209203

but gives the above error on
amd64	r209229
ia64	r209244

many thanks
anton

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