Package: systemd Version: 240-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
after updating systemd from 239-15 to 240-2 timesyncd stopped touching /var/lib/private/systemd/timesync/clock any more and its time stamps stay at the time of the package upgrade. Additionally the file is no longer used to update the system time after reboot, using the compile time instead until an NTP server is available (if no RTC is available). This is reproducable for the two systems I tested (the other is on amd64). On both systems the last timestamp is the time of the package upgrade according to the dpkg log. Downgrading to 239-15 solves the issue and the file is updated again. Using > systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=kmsg log_buf_len=1M > printk.devkmsg=on as linux command line boot parameter, the following error appears in the log: > systemd-timesyncd[309]: Failed to create state directory, ignoring: > Permission denied So the open of /var/lib/systemd/timesync in timesyncd.c, line 37, fails. The reason is probably > ls -ld /var/lib/private > drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Dez 20 16:03 /var/lib/private/ as timesyncd runs with UID/GUI systemd-timesync:systemd-timesync. The following article might be related (modulo all the noise): https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdTimesyncdFailure Kind regards Patrick -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: armhf (armv7l) Kernel: Linux 4.19.8-v7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages systemd depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii libacl1 2.2.52-3+b1 ii libapparmor1 2.13.1-3+b1 ii libaudit1 1:2.8.4-2 ii libblkid1 2.33-0.2 ii libc6 2.28-2 ii libcap2 1:2.25-1.2 ii libcryptsetup12 2:2.0.6-1 ii libgcrypt20 1.8.4-4 ii libgnutls30 3.6.5-2 ii libgpg-error0 1.33-3 ii libidn11 1.33-2.2 ii libip4tc0 1.8.2-3 ii libkmod2 25-2 ii liblz4-1 1.8.2-1 ii liblzma5 5.2.2-1.3 ii libmount1 2.33-0.2 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.8 ii libseccomp2 2.3.3-3 ii libselinux1 2.8-1+b1 ii libsystemd0 240-2 ii mount 2.33-0.2 ii util-linux 2.33-0.2 Versions of packages systemd recommends: ii dbus 1.12.12-1 ii libpam-systemd 240-2 Versions of packages systemd suggests: ii policykit-1 0.105-23 pn systemd-container <none> Versions of packages systemd is related to: pn dracut <none> ii initramfs-tools 0.132 ii udev 240-2 -- Configuration Files: /etc/systemd/system.conf changed: [Manager] DefaultTimeoutStartSec=10s DefaultTimeoutStopSec=10s -- no debconf information