Chrony initscript always sets chrony offline even with Internet connectivity

[xor]

Using Ubuntu 12.04 server.

The initscript /etc/init.d/chrony should set chrony to online-mode if Internet connectivity is detected.
However, it always sets chrony to offline mode even when the machine is online. resulting in the machine's clock never being synchronized!

I have copy-pasted some of the "if" in the script to see which one fails, and this one is it:
"if timelimit -q -s9 -t5 -- netstat -rn 2>/dev/null | grep UG | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | grep -q '0\.0\.0\.0'"

(FYI: The machine is online via a DSL-connection configured by "pppoeconf".)

[xor (xor)]

Notice that there is also a script /etc/ppp/ip-up.d which set chrony to online mode as soon as ppp dialup happens. This hides the bug which I have reported.

So to reproduce this bug, first dialup the machine, then restart the chrony service. It will be offline then.

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Hi Vladim,
I worked on Chrony in 18.04 and it is quite good now IMHO.
Given that 12.04 is EOL for quite some time I'll mark this bug invalid.

Please if you still have/find an issue in it these days please let us know.
It will unlikely be the same bug, so if you do I'd recommend you open a new bug for those.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for chrony (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]