ubuntu_ltp_syscalls fails on Groovy Oracle: start of systemd-timesyncd.service failed

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

Groovy/oracle 5.8.0-1027.28, 5.8.0-1025.26, 5.8.0-1022.23-oracle and probably earlier - ubuntu_ltp_syscalls fails on 'systemctl start systemd-timesyncd':

1. 02/27 08:55:24 DEBUG| utils:0116| Running 'systemctl status systemd-timesyncd 2>&1'
2. 02/27 08:55:24 INFO |ubuntu_ltp:0160| Checking virt-what to see if we need to set LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL for getrandom02...
3. 02/27 08:55:24 INFO |ubuntu_ltp:0163| Running in VM, set timeout multiplier LTP_TIMEOUT_MUL>1 (lp:1797327) for getrandom02
4. 02/27 08:58:34 DEBUG| utils:0116| Running 'systemctl stop systemd-timesyncd'
5. 02/27 08:58:41 DEBUG| utils:0116| Running 'systemctl start systemd-timesyncd'
6. 02/27 08:58:41 ERROR| test:0414| Exception escaping from test:
7. Traceback (most recent call last):
8. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/shared/test.py", line 411, in _exec
9. _call_test_function(self.execute, *p_args, **p_dargs)
10. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/shared/test.py", line 823, in _call_test_function
11. return func(*args, **dargs)
12. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/shared/test.py", line 291, in execute
13. postprocess_profiled_run, args, dargs)
14. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/shared/test.py", line 212, in _call_run_once
15. self.run_once(*args, **dargs)
16. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/tests/ubuntu_ltp_syscalls/ubuntu_ltp_syscalls.py", line 192, in run_once
17. utils.run('systemctl start systemd-timesyncd')
18. File "/home/ubuntu/autotest/client/shared/utils.py", line 918, in run
19. "Command returned non-zero exit status")
20. CmdError: Command failed, rc=1, Command returned non-zero exit status
21. * Command:
22. systemctl start systemd-timesyncd
23. Exit status: 1
24. Duration: 0.0192518234253
25.
26. stderr:
27. Job for systemd-timesyncd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
28. See "systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.