On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:48:03PM -0800, Jack Bates wrote: > On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 22:35 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > He says he somehow ended up with a blank /etc/ntp.conf file, which > > shouldn't happen. > > Thanks Kurt, on further investigation I realize that the ntpdate package > does not distribute an ntp.conf file, blank or otherwise. I think the > blank ntp.conf file I observe is a symptom of bug #397648, which has > been forwarded upstream: > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449267 > > Unfortunately neither bug #397648 nor the upstream bug show any recent > activity : ( > > After deleting the blank ntp.conf file and without manually > reconfiguring /etc/default/ntpdate, I can run ntpdate-debian
I sent a patch to the upstream bug, which I've also attached here. See also #606107, which I just filed on ntp with some tweaks to work around this bug. Applying both these sets of changes should get rid of this problem. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com]
>From 126b6d57e28f4b626e61ae520c24c08a31849bfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Colin Watson <cjwat...@canonical.com> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:40:42 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bgo#449267 - Don't create empty NTP configuration files If /etc/ntp.conf (or the platform equivalent) doesn't exist, then merely synchronising the clock in time-admin would create it as an empty file. This caused other time syncing problems later (see e.g. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/83604). --- Time/NTP.pm | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Time/NTP.pm b/Time/NTP.pm index e7be3a9..c3106bb 100644 --- a/Time/NTP.pm +++ b/Time/NTP.pm @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ sub ntp_conf_replace my ($line_key, $val, $rest); my ($n, $ret); + return if !&Utils::File::exists ($file); + &Utils::Report::enter (); &Utils::Report::do_report ("replace_split", $key, $file); -- 1.7.2.3
