Comment 3 for bug 1882505

Hello Dimitri,

After a quick check it looks like this service is still in inactive (dead) state even after a reboot.

ubuntu@kernel04:/lib/systemd$ sudo systemctl status systemd-timesyncd
● systemd-timesyncd.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit systemd-timesyncd.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead)
ubuntu@kernel04:/lib/systemd$ file /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service
/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service: cannot open `/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service' (No such file or directory)

And there is no "systemd-timesyncd.service" file at where is should be.

So yeah it's not running, our testing tool did not check the state first before trying to stop / start it.

$ sudo systemctl edit systemd-timesyncd
Cannot edit systemd-timesyncd.service: unit is masked.

Let me see if I can un-mask it.