Hi Igor, first of all I beg your pardon that this was dormant for so long - just too many issues to pick from and NTP was long neglected for having so many issues we didn't want Delta but Debian didn't update. After Stretch was released NTP moved again in Debian, so if we need/want to change there as well it seems better now. Also part of this reluctance is due to systemd timedatectl >> ntpdate (deprecated and causing all kind of trouble) and such. Anyway - time to tackle things - and thanks for your debugging and suggestion already!
The particular change you suggested moves it from SysV to systemd which is fine for Ubuntu, but might be an issue to Debian who still allow to switch to SysV. To re-triage the current state I checked this out once more on Xenial (as reported) and Artful. Both still run systemctl from the generated service based on sysV /etc/init.d/ntp. Just installing NTP has a running service after install: - On both releases a invoke-rc.d ntp stop stops it properly - On both releases a invoke-rc.d ntp start starts it properly again - Rebooting (without ntpdate installed yet) works just fine, service running Installing ntpdate and retrying: - after boot the service is up in xenial and artful - On both releases a invoke-rc.d ntp stop stops it properly - On both releases a invoke-rc.d ntp start starts it properly again Weird, unable to confirm or reproduce your issue. But I remember we discussed and changed things around there - (waking up my memory). Checking the ifup hook confirmed that - the stop/start is gone anyway in the newer release. ... Yeah memory was right I fixed that in Artful on the merge because this thing was way more complex and error prone than its benefit - one can check details at [1]. I need to backport that to X/Y/Z - preparing for that now ... [1]: https://git.launchpad.net/~usd-import- team/ubuntu/+source/ntp/commit/?id=943814aa43eb5915f4b643cd48061b3a7e4c75f8 ** Changed in: ntp (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Released ** Also affects: ntp (Ubuntu Yakkety) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ntp (Ubuntu Zesty) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ntp (Ubuntu Xenial) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- 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/1593907 Title: ntpdate startup routine prevents ntp service from launching up on Ubuntu 16.04 server on system boot; manually starting ntp service works: [FIX in DESCRIPTION], just need to apply it and release a new version Status in ntp package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in ntp source package in Xenial: Triaged Status in ntp source package in Yakkety: Triaged Status in ntp source package in Zesty: Triaged Bug description: I've installed ntp service on the clean ubuntu 16.04 server system. Configured it. Checked that it works, but, after reboot, it doesn't start automatically. When I check: 'systemctl is-enabled ntp', it shows enabled. If I manually start it 'systemctl start ntp' it starts just fine and woks correctly, but until I manually start it, 'systemctl status ntp' shows: Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/ntp; bad; vendor preset: enabled) Active: inactive (deadi) Installed 1.29ubuntu2 version of init-systems-helper, but it didn't fix the problem. Found a bugreport on ntpd package: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1577596 led to solution that involves a change to be made in file: /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate of ntpdate package After changing from: ______________CODE_START______________ invoke-rc.d --quiet $service stop >/dev/null 2>&1 || true # Avoid running more than one at a time flock -n /run/lock/ntpdate /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian -s $OPTS 2>/dev/null || : invoke-rc.d --quiet $service start >/dev/null 2>&1 || true ______________CODE_END______________ to: ______________CODE_START______________ systemctl --quiet stop $service.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || true # Avoid running more than one at a time flock -n /run/lock/ntpdate /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian -s $OPTS 2>/dev/null || : systemctl --quiet start $service.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || true ______________CODE_END______________ ntpd service started launching on boot. System Information: lsb_release -rd: Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Release: 16.04 apt-cache policy ntpdate: ntpdate: Установлен: 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5 Кандидат: 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5 Таблица версий: *** 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5 500 500 http://ru.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1593907/+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
