Just a quick follow-up on my note, above. It seems to me that Kudu has an incompatibility with NTP slew. I have spent a solid day testing various scenarios, and if slew is on, Kudu won't start (or will eventually crash). This does not seem to be related to time, as the time does not appear to creep away from what is expected. Just that little "-x" on the ntpd command (either on the command line, or in the /etc/sysconfig/ntpd file) makes the different. With it, Kudu won't start, or will crash. Without it, all is fine. I am using Kudu (parcel) with CDH 5.10.1. For now, I will just continue without slew, and I post this in the hopes of helping others as well as follow on comments of other solutions. Certainly, I'd be interested in any one with a working Kudu to try to turn on slew and restart ntpd. Then does Kudu start correctly? Thanks!!!!
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