Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-4
Severity: serious
Justification: breaks boot process
Dear all,
ntpdate hangs the boot process in certain cases: it starts
/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate with set -e, but the calls to
ntpdate-debian exit with an error message, so the script terminates
immediately, and thus the lockfile is not removed, from the code:
set -e
...
/usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian -s $OPTS 2>/dev/null
if [ -x /usr/bin/lockfile-create ] ; then
kill $LOCKTOUCHPID
lockfile-remove $LOCKFILE
fi
Now since ntpdate-debian return 1, the process is terminated immediately
and the kill/lockfile-remove is never executed.
But, later on, the ntp server tries to start and checks for the same
lockfile and hangs there (ok, after 5min it will continue because
lockfile utils consider an 5m untouched file stale, but that is not an
option for booting).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-wl (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-8 SSL shared libraries
ii netbase 4.32 Basic TCP/IP networking system
Versions of packages ntpdate recommends:
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.11-0.1 Programs for locking and unlocking
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