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ntp package

  1. Bug #1649729
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1649729

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Matt LaPlante (cybrmatt) wrote : Re: ntpd startup failures under xenial

I actually think I gave a fairly thorough description of the problem and it has nothing to do with ntpd configuration. I even said specifically that I can manually start/stop ntpd and it works - configuration valid and operational.

The problem is /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate starting and stopping the daemon in rapid succession when multiple interfaces come up. This causes binding conflicts and often ntpd will wind up down as a result.

Reproduction is fairly easy: Just run /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate several times in rapid succession and see what happens.