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