Comment 0 for bug 1937238

When I start my server running Ubuntu 20.04 the systemd-time-wait-sync.service is stuck in "activating" state. I noticed this because none of the systemd timer units triggered, because all the timers depend on systemd-time-wait-sync.service. Running "systemctl restart systemd-time-wait-sync.service" manually works around the problem.

Some logs and command outputs:

raek@mizar:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04

raek@mizar:~$ systemctl | grep systemd-time-wait-sync.service
  systemd-time-wait-sync.service loaded activating start start Wait Until Kernel Time Synchronized

raek@mizar:~$ systemctl status systemd-time-wait-sync.service
● systemd-time-wait-sync.service - Wait Until Kernel Time Synchronized
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-time-wait-sync.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: activating (start) since Thu 2021-07-22 11:06:52 CEST; 27min ago
       Docs: man:systemd-time-wait-sync.service(8)
   Main PID: 514 (systemd-time-wa)
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 9415)
     Memory: 972.0K
     CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-time-wait-sync.service
             └─514 /lib/systemd/systemd-time-wait-sync

Jul 22 11:06:52 mizar systemd-time-wait-sync[514]: adjtime state 5 status 40 time Thu 2021-07-22 09:06:52.216338 UTC
Warning: journal has been rotated since unit was started, output may be incomplete.

raek@mizar:~$ journalctl -b -u systemd-time-wait-sync.service
-- Logs begin at Wed 2020-07-08 16:34:13 CEST, end at Thu 2021-07-22 11:36:44 CEST. --
Jul 22 11:06:52 mizar systemd-time-wait-sync[514]: adjtime state 5 status 40 time Thu 2021-07-22 09:06:52.216338 UTC

raek@mizar:~$ dpkg -S /lib/systemd/system/systemd-time-wait-sync.service
systemd: /lib/systemd/system/systemd-time-wait-sync.service

raek@mizar:~$ apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 245.4-4ubuntu3.11
  Candidate: 245.4-4ubuntu3.11
  Version table:
 *** 245.4-4ubuntu3.11 500
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     245.4-4ubuntu3.10 500
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
     245.4-4ubuntu3.8 400
        400 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 Packages
     245.4-4ubuntu3 500
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages