Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8 Severity: wishlist If you do not have a loopback interface configured then ntp will work and sync your time, but ntpq will error out and fail to connect to the running ntp server.
The only other common symptom of a missing loopback that I could find was that portmap / statd blows up (assuming you even have that installed to run NFS). NFS isn't your thing, I'm just including it to show that ntpq is one of the few things that won't work without a loopback and nothing in Debian provides any error. Maybe something as simple as in the start of the init.d script, grep the output of ifconfig for a Loopback and if none found, echo some comment about ntpq will not work until you add a loopback interface. Some extra commentary at this blog post http://vincemulhollon.blogspot.com/2009/01/debian-nfs-root-interface-configuration.html Its easier than you would expect to end up with no configured loopback on a NFS-root mounted diskless workstation. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ntp depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libedit2 2.11~20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.34 Basic TCP/IP networking system Versions of packages ntp recommends: ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages ntp suggests: ii ntp-doc 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8 Network Time Protocol documentatio -- 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
