Package: chrony Version: 4.6.1-3 Severity: normal If the package gpsd is installed and chrony is configured to use a pps device it fails to start on boot because the /dev/pps device isn’t available.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 13.0 APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.35+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages chrony depends on: ii adduser 3.152 ii init-system-helpers 1.68 ii iproute2 6.15.0-1 ii libc6 2.41-10 ii libcap2 1:2.75-9 ii libedit2 3.1-20250104-1 ii libgnutls30t64 3.8.9-3 ii libnettle8t64 3.10.1-1 ii libseccomp2 2.6.0-2 ii tzdata 2025b-4 ii ucf 3.0052 chrony recommends no packages. Versions of packages chrony suggests: ii bind9-dnsutils [dnsutils] 1:9.20.9-1 pn networkd-dispatcher <none> -- no debconf information
# Welcome to the chrony configuration file. See chrony.conf(5) for more # information about usable directives. # Use Debian vendor zone. #pool 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst # Use time sources from DHCP. sourcedir /run/chrony-dhcp # Use NTP sources found in /etc/chrony/sources.d. sourcedir /etc/chrony/sources.d # reference clock refclock SHM 0 refid GPS precision 1e-3 poll 4 offset 0.122 delay 0.2 refclock PPS /dev/pps2 lock GPS refid PPS poll 0 precision 1e-9 rate 5 width 0.1 maxlockage 32 prefer # This directive specifies the location of the file containing ID/key pairs for # NTP authentication. keyfile /etc/chrony/chrony.keys # This directive specifies the file into which chronyd will store the rate # information. driftfile /var/lib/chrony/chrony.drift # Save NTS keys and cookies. ntsdumpdir /var/lib/chrony # Uncomment the following line to turn logging on. #log tracking measurements statistics # Log files location. logdir /var/log/chrony # Stop bad estimates upsetting machine clock. maxupdateskew 100.0 # This directive enables kernel synchronisation (every 11 minutes) of the # real-time clock. Note that it can't be used along with the 'rtcfile' directive. rtcsync # Step the system clock instead of slewing it if the adjustment is larger than # one second, but only in the first three clock updates. makestep 1 3 # Get TAI-UTC offset and leap seconds from the system tz database. # This directive must be commented out when using time sources serving # leap-smeared time. leapseclist /usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list # Include configuration files found in /etc/chrony/conf.d. confdir /etc/chrony/conf.d
