[Breezy] "Synchronizing clock ..." failed during startup

[Ricardo Pérez López]

When I boot my Breezy, the ntpdate service says:

Synchronizing clock to ntp.ubuntulinux.org failed

If I go into rescue mode, I can see:

[...]
Configuring network ok
NET: Registered protocol family 17
[...]
Synchronizing clock to ntp.ubuntulinux.org failed
Error: Temporary failure in name resolution
[...]

And then, when I have the # prompt, I type:

# /etc/init.d/ntpdate start
Synchronizing clock to ntp.ubuntulinux.org ok
NET: Registered protocol family 10
[...]

I haven't got this issue until yesterday.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

More info:

If I put the line:

82.211.81.145 ntp.ubuntulinux.org

in the /etc/hosts file, then the problem solves.

It seems there's a problem in the startup sequence: it does not configure the
nameservers properly. This problem is not in Hoary.

I have a cable modem connection, autoconfiguring in startup using DHCP.

[Ricardo Pérez López (ricardo)]

Mmmm... Weird thing.

I've booted several times: some times works well, and some times ntpdate fails.

It seems like a race condition: I think, sometimes the system takes too much
time to set up the nameservers, and therefore the ntpdate can't find the host
ntp.ubuntulinux.org.

Or maybe I'm wrong :/

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20960.