Hi,
the fix has to go to the development release first (Yakkety).
The merge is waiting for a review quite a while already.

Thanks you for the push on this, I'll take this as an opportunity to raise
the priority of the merge.

Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Bob Jones <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Have you finished "thinking about" fixing the broken NTP in Xenial yet ?
> Its becoming a bit of a joke to be without such a key package (let alone
> the hacks that have had to be put in place to keep server time accurate
> !).
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1567540
>
> Title:
>   ntpd crashed with SIGABRT (was: ntp crashes everytime the network goes
>   up or down.)
>
> Status in NTP:
>   Fix Released
> Status in ntp package in Ubuntu:
>   Triaged
> Status in ntp source package in Xenial:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   ntp crashes every time the network goes up or down while the system is
> running and also crashes after booting up without network.
>   ---
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: XFCE
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-12 (26 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64
> (20160224)
>   NtpStatus: ntpq: read: Connection refused
>   Package: ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu4
>   PackageArchitecture: amd64
>   ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-17-generic
> root=UUID=306314bc-efcb-4c2d-b0e9-e05ec92ed0f0 ro
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-17.33-generic 4.4.6
>   Tags:  xenial
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-17-generic x86_64
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
>   _MarkForUpload: True
>   ---
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: XFCE
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-03-12 (31 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64
> (20160224)
>   NtpStatus: ntpq: read: Connection refused
>   Package: ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5
>   PackageArchitecture: amd64
>   ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-18-generic
> root=UUID=306314bc-efcb-4c2d-b0e9-e05ec92ed0f0 ro
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6
>   Tags:  xenial
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
>   _MarkForUpload: True
>   ---
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: XFCE
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-13 (0 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64
> (20160412)
>   NtpStatus: ntpq: read: Connection refused
>   Package: ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5
>   PackageArchitecture: amd64
>   ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-18-generic
> root=UUID=13f57794-2e19-4a56-836a-94185bba5ec5 ro quiet splash
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6
>   Tags:  xenial
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
>   _MarkForUpload: True
>   ---
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: XFCE
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-13 (0 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64
> (20160412)
>   NtpStatus: ntpq: read: Connection refused
>   Package: ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5
>   PackageArchitecture: amd64
>   ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-18-generic
> root=UUID=13f57794-2e19-4a56-836a-94185bba5ec5 ro quiet splash
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6
>   Tags:  xenial
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
>   _MarkForUpload: True
>   ---
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: XFCE
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-14 (3 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64
> (20160412)
>   NtpStatus: ntpq: read: Connection refused
>   Package: ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5
>   PackageArchitecture: amd64
>   ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-20-generic
> root=UUID=b9c0528f-e81f-4b08-9b31-032f14f72ccd ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-20.36-generic 4.4.6
>   Tags:  xenial
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-20-generic x86_64
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
>   _MarkForUpload: True
>   ---
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: XFCE
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-14 (3 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64
> (20160412)
>   NtpStatus: ntpq: read: Connection refused
>   Package: ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5
>   PackageArchitecture: amd64
>   ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-20-generic
> root=UUID=b9c0528f-e81f-4b08-9b31-032f14f72ccd ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-20.36-generic 4.4.6
>   Tags:  xenial
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-20-generic x86_64
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
>   _MarkForUpload: True
>   ---
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CurrentDesktop: XFCE
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-14 (63 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64
> (20160412)
>   NtpStatus: ntpq: read: Connection refused
>   Package: ntp 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5
>   PackageArchitecture: amd64
>   ProcCmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-25-generic
> root=UUID=3aea4570-4011-4247-9636-68317385324d ro
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-25.44-generic 4.4.13
>   Tags: xenial third-party-packages
>   Uname: Linux 4.4.0-25-generic x86_64
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin mail netdev plugdev sambashare
> sudo
>   _MarkForUpload: True
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