On Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:55:59 -0400 Wesley Schwengle
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: openntpd
> Version: 1:7.9p1-3
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> I noticed my openntpd wasn't running anymore do to a clock skew error on
> building i3 from source. It seems from version 7.9p1-3 and up the location of
> the sock file changed from `/var/lib/openntpd/run/ntpd.sock` to
> `/run/openntpd/ntpd.sock`. This causes apparmor issues:
>
> Aug 05 02:44:05 sputnik-odin kernel: audit: type=1400
> audit(1785912245.478:30553): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" class="file"
> profile="/usr/sbin/ntpd" name="/run/openntpd/ntpd.sock" pid=255478 comm="ntpd"
> requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=0 ouid=0
>
> Aug 05 02:46:17 sputnik-odin kernel: audit: type=1400
> audit(1785912377.102:30562): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" class="file"
> profile="/usr/sbin/ntpd" name="/var/lib/openntpd/ntpd.drift" pid=256003
> comm="ntpd" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=0 ouid=0
>
> A downgrade to a stable package made it work and while bisecting I noticed the
> first error on 1:7.9p1-3, it is also present on 7.9p1-4. Although I didn't 
> test
> the openntpd_1%3a6.8p1-6_amd64.deb, openntpd_1%3a6.8p1-5_amd64.deb packages.
>
> To fix the glich I had to add `/run/openntpd/ntpd.sock rw,` to
> `/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.ntpd` and reload it with `apparmor_parser -r
> /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.ntpd` after which the problem got solved.

Sorry, where would you add this? We currently have:

  /usr/sbin/ntpd mrix,
  /var/lib/openntpd/ntpd.drift rw,
  /run/openntpd/ntpd.sock rw,

Martin-Éric

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