I am/was experiencing this problem on Ubuntu 11.10. A bit of tuning for apparmor's confiugration solved the problem for me. Editing /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.ntpd and running 'sudo dpkg-reconfigure apparmor' did the trick. I added the following two lines for the /usr/sbin/ntpd: /etc/openntpd/ntpd.conf r, /{,var/}run/openntpd.pid w,
The trouble was that the apparmor prevented ntpd from reading the configuration file and then prevented writing of the pid file... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/782116 Title: Package OpenNTPd does not install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openntpd/+bug/782116/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs