[Bug 1873031] Re: 245.4-2ubuntu1 throws stderr messages on timesyncd restart in its dhcp hook

[Mathew Hodson]

** Changed in: chrony (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => High

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Title:
  245.4-2ubuntu1 throws stderr messages on timesyncd restart in its dhcp
  hook

Status in chrony package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  systemd has broken this by the split of timesyncd.

  On a system that installed chrony (or other NTP servers) you'll have:

  Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
  | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
  |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
  ||/ Name              Version        Architecture Description
  +++-=================-==============-============-===============================================================
  ii  chrony            3.5-6ubuntu3   amd64        Versatile implementation of the Network Time Protocol
  rc  systemd-timesyncd 245.4-4ubuntu1 amd64        minimalistic service to synchronize local time with NTP servers

  That left this behind:
    /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/timesyncd

  And if you now run a dhcp based time server push it will fail very
  badly.

  P.S. This is triggered by the chrony autopkgtests but not an issue in chrony yet it is in systemd.
  But due to that one can use [1] as easy reproducer, I wonder how systemd slipped by this issue in autopkgtest?

  It contains:
          systemctl try-restart systemd-timesyncd.service || true

  Which in the setup the system now has will trigger:
   sudo dhclient dummy0
  Failed to try-restart systemd-timesyncd.service: Unit systemd-timesyncd.service is masked.

  P.S. I'll harden the chrony test to not stumble over this but it
  should be revisited for systemd to provide a better fix than causing
  this message every time (maybe pre-check if it is enabled and
  unmasked)?

  [1]: https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chrony/tree/debian/tests
  /time-sources-from-dhcp-servers?h=ubuntu/focal-devel

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