One thing that I noticed on the Wily VM but did not happen on a server of someone else I asked: somehow ntpdate seems to get disrupted in some way that leaves the lockfile in /var/lock around. Which then causes the ominous "exceeded maximum number of lock attempts".
One thing that I noticed on the Wily VM but did not happen on a server of someone else I asked: somehow ntpdate seems to get disrupted in some way that leaves the lockfile in /var/lock around. Which then causes the ominous "exceeded maximum number of lock attempts".