[Removing Paul from Cc]
What does “journalctl -u chrony” return when that happens?dilinger@e7450:~$ sudo journalctl -u chrony -- No entries --
Not surprising as chrony start-up has been strangely canceled: Dec 02 09:07:41 e7450 systemd[1]: chrony.service: Job chrony.service/start finished, result=canceled
What I would like you to try is to boot with the “systemd.log_level=debug” kernel parameter and attach the output of “journalctl -b” and a dump of “systemctl”.I've attached the two dumps. I'm not sure what's up with systemd not seeing chronyd as executable (ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/chronyd failed).. dilinger@e7450:~$ ls -l /usr/sbin/chronyd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 215408 Jul 22 08:24 /usr/sbin/chronyd
Well, systemd-timesyncd checks if “/usr/sbin/chronyd” (among other {S}NTP implementations) exists and *is* executable before starting, if that’s the case it won’t start. So everything is normal here!
It may be worth to see if chrony from testing/unstable behaves the same way. Also, I tried to reproduce this issue on a fresh Stretch install but failed. Could you give more details on your system (cpu arch, desktop environment, network manager, Debian stable version, …)?The machine is a Dell Latitude E7450 (i5-5300U with 8GB of ram). It was originally installed with jessie (iirc), and dist-upgraded to stretch. No outside packages installed, other than a few backports: ii gplaycli 0.2.10-1~bpo9+1 all Google Play downloader command line interface ii linux-image-4.13.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 4.13.13-1~bpo9+1 amd64 Linux 4.13 for 64-bit PCs ii linux-image-amd64 4.13+86~bpo9+1 amd64 Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package) ii torbrowser-launcher 0.2.8-5~bpo9+1 amd64 helps download and run the Tor Browser Bundle I'm using Cinnamon with network-manager-gnome. I've also attached a dump of 'dpkg -l'. I've got apt configured with the following: APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Install-Recommends "0";
Awesome, thanks a lot! Unfortunately I have yet to set a VM duplicating your environment as I have to deal with IRL events at the moment.
However there is something I find suspecious in that the networking stuff isn’t initialized before chronyd starts despite that the provided chrony unit file contains:
After=network.target So would you please try to override the whole unit file? #cp /lib/systemd/system/chrony.service /etc/systemd/system/And remove the “After=network.target” line in /etc/systemd/system/chrony.service.
Reboot and report back! Cheers, Vincent
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