I've just installed Arch Linux ARM on a new Pogoplug Pro, and a wonderful beast it is (ALARM, not the Pro itself
). This is a small possible fix to the openntpd package that may help. I've found that openntpd is not setting the date at startup properly. A check in the logs shows many repeated attempts to sync but since the local clock is at 1970, the required change is too large, and adjtime fails. The Arch Linux Wiki states that the Arch package uses the "-s" option to overcome this problem, but this does not seem to be the case. I have edited /etc/rc.d/openntpd to replace
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/sbin/ntpd $PARAMS
')
with
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '
[ -z "$PID" ] && /usr/sbin/ntpd -s $PARAM
')
All seems to be fine now. Since I'm a newbie to Arch I am not sure whether this was in fact the correct thing to do, and if it was, how to upload / commit it to the original package.