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Dhcpcd writes the following line to /etc/ntp.conf:
driftfile /etc/ntp.drift
In Ubuntu 5.05, ntpd runs as user ntp and thus lacks permission to create the specified file. Write permission in the directory is necessary as ntpd regularly creates a new file ntp.drift.TEMP and then moves it to ntp.drift.
This may be solved by letting dhcpcd write the line in accordance to Ubuntu's default configuration:
driftfile /var/lib/