Package: ntpdate Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3.1 Severity: normal Lately, ntpdate has not been correcting the clock. But when I run "ntpdate-debian" manually after the network is up, the clock is correctly adjusted.
This is an excerpt from /var/log/demon.log: 4260 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo keyboard-setup[240]: Setting preliminary keymap...done. 4261 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo hdparm[277]: Setting parameters of disc: (none). 4262 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo networking[291]: Configuring network interfaces...done. 4263 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo kbd[376]: Setting console screen modes. 4264 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo ntpdate[371]: Can't find host ntp.uio.no: Name or service not known (-2) 4265 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo ntpdate[371]: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) 4266 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo ntpdate[371]: Can't find host 1.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) 4267 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo NetworkManager[1981]: <info> NetworkManager (version 0.9.10.0) is starting... 4268 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo NetworkManager[1981]: <info> Read config: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf 4269 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo NetworkManager[1981]: <info> WEXT support is enabled 4270 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo dbus[1994]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1' unit='polkitd.service' 4271 Oct 26 08:36:48 lenovo polkitd[2052]: started daemon version 0.105 using authority implementation `local' version `0.105' To me it seems that ntpdate is running before the network is up. This is the output of "ifconfig": eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 3c:97:0e:bf:72:2e UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:20 Memory:f2600000-f2620000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:6304 (6.1 KiB) TX bytes:6304 (6.1 KiB) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr a4:4e:31:47:15:cc inet addr:192.168.0.106 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::a64e:31ff:fe47:15cc/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:62758 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:41258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:65858238 (62.8 MiB) TX bytes:6077544 (5.7 MiB) I'm using wlan0, and have nothing connected to eth0. Best regards Torquil Sørensen -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.17-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ntpdate depends on: ii dpkg 1.17.21 ii libc6 2.19-12 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1j-1 ii netbase 5.3 Versions of packages ntpdate recommends: pn lockfile-progs <none> ntpdate suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/default/ntpdate changed: NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=no NTPSERVERS="ntp.uio.no 0.debian.pool.ntp.org 1.debian.pool.ntp.org 2.debian.pool.ntp.org 3.debian.pool.ntp.org" NTPOPTIONS="-u" -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org