Hi.
When running ntpd I get the same error that Erwan David reported. ntpd outputs
"Cannot find user `ntp'" to syslog and then exits. This seems to be another
bug than the segmentation fault.
Syslog:
Mar 15 21:30:35 p250 ntpd[20223]: kernel time sync status 0040
Mar 15 21:30:35 p250 ntpd[20223]: frequency initialized -160.212 PPM
from /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift
Mar 15 21:30:35 p250 ntpd[20223]: Cannot find user `ntp'
I think the problem has something to do with the code that drops root
privileges that is new according to changelog.Debian. That message is only
sent if getpwnam(user) is NULL (ntpd/ntpd.c line 890). Running ltrace
confirms that getpwnamn("ntp") actually returns NULL which is strange since
the user ntp does exist.
I removed the --enable-linuxcaps configure options in debian/rules and
recompiled the packages. With those recompiled packages I get the same
segmentation fault that others have reported. :(
Best regards
Pär
