That's why it is failing. It's been refactored upstream, at this commit: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/1bbbefe7a68059eb55d864c3e0e670d00269683a
however I don't think that's really a 'bug fix', and probably isn't a candidate to backport to Bionic. Do you really have no RTC in your system, or are you just missing the RTC driver? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to systemd in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852933 Title: Failed to read time with suspend-then-hibernate fails Status in systemd package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: systemd version the issue has been seen with 237 Used distribution Ubuntu 18.04 Expected behaviour you didn't see Running suspend-then-hibernate service should put the machine into sleep mode and then hibernate after the delay set in the sleep.conf file. Unexpected behaviour you saw suspend-then-hibernate fails. The status shows: systemd[1]: Starting Suspend; Idle into hibernate... systemd-sleep[13130]: Failed to read time: -9 systemd[1]: systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service: Main process exited, code systemd[1]: systemd-suspend-then-hibernate.service: Failed with result 'exit- systemd[1]: Failed to start Suspend; Idle into hibernate. Both suspend and hibernate services work fine. Steps to reproduce the problem Running sudo systemctl suspend-then-hibernate generates the error. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1852933/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp