clock drifts after upgrade from 5.x to 6.x

[Alfred Morgan]

I have now enabled ACPI on one machine (making the computer more 
unstable) and it has stopped drifting.  ntpd was disabled for this 
test.  Now that it shows it stopped drifting I have enabled ntpd to see 
if that causes problems.

On another machine I have left ACPI disabled and restarted ntpd (with 
-g) and exactly 6 hours later I got:
Mar 21 16:44:13 ntpd[19918]: time reset +3521.285507 s
Mar 21 16:44:13 ntpd[19918]: kernel time sync disabled 6041

I tried looking in timex.h to see what 6041 ment but I could not figure 
out if 6041 is a mode code or status code.

John Murphy wrote:

>   Interesting.  Were all the upgrades from versions less than 5.3
>   I wonder? Reason I ask is that many people (including me) seem to
>   have started having problems with ntp around that time.  There was
>   a thread in the stable mailing list about it here:
>   http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050401104508.GJ71384
>
>   Perhaps the ntp problem is related to what you're seeing and not
>   an ntp problem at all.  Someone raised a bug report at ntp.isc.org
>   https://ntp.isc.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=452
>   but it has had no action.
>
>   Sorry it's only a hunch and not a solution.
>
>  
>

Versions were 5.3 or 5.4 upgraded to 6.0 or 6.1

-alfred