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init-system-helpers package

  1. Bug #1577596
  2. Comment #29

Comment 29 for bug 1577596

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Heinrich Hartl (hkh) wrote :

I am affected too.
Manually starting ntpd using `systemctl start ntp` doesn't work for me.
ps -ef | grep ntpd # shows no started ntpd.
systemctl status ntp # does not change active (excited), only another last line is added.

root@ILS-AP2:~# systemctl start ntp
root@ILS-AP2:~# ps -ef | grep ntp
root 10186 10166 0 14:22 pts/6 00:00:00 grep --color=auto ntp
root@ILS-AP2:~# systemctl status ntp
● ntp.service - LSB: Start NTP daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/ntp; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Mi 2016-11-02 23:50:59 CET; 1 day 14h ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 1227 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/ntp stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 1367 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/ntp start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Nov 02 23:50:59 ILS-AP2 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Start NTP daemon...
Nov 02 23:50:59 ILS-AP2 ntp[1367]: * Starting NTP server ntpd
Nov 02 23:50:59 ILS-AP2 ntp[1367]: ...done.
Nov 02 23:50:59 ILS-AP2 ntpd[1381]: proto: precision = 0.129 usec (-23)
Nov 02 23:50:59 ILS-AP2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start NTP daemon.
Nov 02 23:51:05 ILS-AP2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start NTP daemon.
Nov 04 12:36:22 ILS-AP2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start NTP daemon.
Nov 04 12:38:45 ILS-AP2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start NTP daemon.
Nov 04 14:22:21 ILS-AP2 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start NTP daemon.
root@ILS-AP2:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial