I experience this problem intermittently with Lenny during reboots. Sometimes ntpd crashes; sometimes not. Manually starting up always works. Perhaps there is a race condition during startup? Maybe raising it from S20 would help.
Here are the other things loading in runlevel 2: S10rsyslog@ S12acpid@ S12dbus@ S15dnsmasq@ S16ssh@ S20openntpd@ S20postfix@ S20smartmontools@ S25mdadm@ S89cron@ S99rc.local@ S99rmnologin@ S99stop-bootlogd@ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org