Archive for December, 2009

NTPq refuses to provide info on peers

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

While equipping my fresh Gentoo server with NTP capabilities I was wondering why after a couple of minutes after starting ntpd, ntpq -p (or ntpq -c peers) was shouting “ntpq: read: Connection refused” at me… What is going on?
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KSplash freeze using KDE 4, hardened-sources and SELinux enabled

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Had a rather unpleasant bug for about a week and could not figure out what the exact issue was. Problem: when booting KDE, the KSplash screen would load and when the KDE gears appeared, the whole system would lock up. As in freeze, not able to switch to different terminal, nothing.
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