This was really worth to take a look again. Whatever was fixed in between in Debian was lost up unto the last version. So other than assumed the fix was not in.
Pinging the Debian bug and working on a Y fix (which is the prereq for a backport) ** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => In Progress ** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => ChristianEhrhardt (paelzer) -- 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: Fix Released Status in ntp package in Ubuntu: In Progress 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 pool ntp.ubuntu.com the word server as been replaced by "pool" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ntp/+bug/1576698/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: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