[LinuxPPS] PPS stops working after a few seconds

[Udo van den Heuvel]

clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> Join the club.

Which one? ;-)

> This is another instance of the problem that Hal V. Engel and I discussed
> about a month ago.  I have seen it (mainly) on startup, and Hal's suggestion
> to start ntpd, stop it, then restart it, works.  It would be nice to know
> what the problem is with linuxPPS that this works around, but it does 
> consistantly start for me now.
> 
> You dont say if this is just after a reboot (and you never had ntpd running)
> or if it just 'happened', but from the counts it looks like the latter.

It happened.
ntpd was running for a few weeks on my trusty VIA EK8000.

> I have seen this same behaviour of the counts increasing by one each time
> I do something, and assume that it should be a clue as to what is wrong
> with the code.
> 
> So, no solution, but welcome to the club.

No solution?

> [[ As I mentioned above, Hal's suggestion of starting ntpd (from init.d)
> waiting 20sec, killing ntpd, then restarting ntpd works for me. ]]

Ah, a workaround...!
Will try!