Comment 11 for bug 1878005

Hmm,
so chrony-pid doesn't exist and was properly cleaned up for you - odd.

But then starting the daemon seems to just work (no errors) yet then we get no running process.

We need to switch on more debug, would you mind running this:

$ bash -x /usr/lib/systemd/scripts/chronyd-starter.sh -d -F -1

That should
a) show what the script is doing due to the -x
b) show what chrony is doing and stay in foreground due to the -d

Hopefully that gives some more insight ...