Your message dated Sat, 8 Sep 2018 02:00:47 +0200
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and subject line Closing old bugs
has caused the Debian Bug report #808864,
regarding ntp-wait takes very long
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Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-2+deb7u4
Severity: minor
ntp-wait waits until the status line contains "leap_none", but
sometimes this took 40 minutes to reach. The application here
is an embedded system on hardware that may not have a battery clock,
or an unreliable one. A runtime of less than a minute would be good.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=864193 also talks about
this issue. The solution there was to interpret the status code
to see when sync was reached.
I don't know if their code can be taken as is, but the documentation site
referenced there
https://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/decode.html#sys
seems to indicate that the sync_ field when set to sync_unspec indicates
"not yet synchronized", while other messages indicate time has
synchronized. Perhaps Debian's ntp-wait should be adjusted.
Greetings,
Michael.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.9
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii adduser 3.113+nmu3
ii dpkg 1.16.16
ii libc6 2.13-38+deb7u8
ii libcap2 1:2.22-1.2
ii libedit2 2.11-20080614-5
ii libopts25 1:5.12-0.1
ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1e-2+deb7u17
ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1
ii netbase 5.0
Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii perl 5.14.2-21+deb7u2
Versions of packages ntp suggests:
pn ntp-doc <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/ntp.conf changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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Hello,
thank you for spending your time helping to make Debian better with
this bug report. Unfortunately your bug report could not be (completely)
dealt with in an appropriate time.
The version you have filed this bug report against is for a release that
is not supported anymore. Unfortunately we do not have the manpower to
reproduce bugs that old. It is possibly already fixed with the current
version.
Therefor I'm closing this bug. If you can still reproduce this issue on
a supported release (Debian 9 aka stretch, preferably also in sid) feel
free to reopen the bug report.
Thanks,
Bernhard
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