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  1. Bug #1848309
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1848309

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Alex (loxal) wrote : Re: "Automatic Date & Time" is broken

 sudo systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d
           └─disable-with-time-daemon.conf
   Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Mon 2019-10-21 12:34:47 CEST; 4h 5min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)

Oct 21 12:34:29 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.
Oct 21 12:34:47 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.

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$ timedatectl set-ntp true

$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d
           └─disable-with-time-daemon.conf
   Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Mon 2019-10-21 17:19:40 CEST; 1s ago
           └─ ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/ntpd was not met
     Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)

Oct 21 12:34:29 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.
Oct 21 12:34:47 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.
Oct 21 16:41:31 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.
Oct 21 17:19:31 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.
Oct 21 17:19:32 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.
Oct 21 17:19:33 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.
Oct 21 17:19:34 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.
Oct 21 17:19:40 sun systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time Synchronization being skipped.

...still the slider cannot be activated.