Found the same two days ago, I started to discuss a few other things with Debian ntp maintainer anyway. Will put that on my list as well.
** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ntp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576698 Title: ntpdate-debian not working Status in ntp package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: in 16.04 I get this # ntpdate-debian 28 Apr 09:54:14 ntpdate[30747]: no servers can be used, exiting The problem is that ntpdate-debian parse /etc/ntp.conf, searchin for the word "server", but the format of the file as changed a bit < server 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org < server 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org < server 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org < server 3.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org --- > pool 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst > pool 3.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org iburst 25c24 < server ntp.ubuntu.com --- > pool ntp.ubuntu.com the word server as been replaced by "pool" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1576698/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp