[Bug 537451] [NEW] ntpdate-debian not syncing time

[Hans-Peter]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: ntpdate

Not sure, if this is a bug at all, but i see strange things. Fact is, system clock was totally wrong (about half an hour). Calling ntpdate with ntp.ubuntu.com as timeserver corrected the system time. I now started to explore. Thats what I've found: In if-up.d directory ntpdate-debian is called. This one uses /etc/default/ntpdate as a config file. In my configfile NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF was set
to 'yes'.  But ntp has never been installed on my system (as far as i know) and so config files for ntp did not exist (such as /etc/ntp.conf). So no servers from ntp,  NTPSERVERS=ntp.ubuntu.com from /etc/defaut/ntpdate not used --> no syncing time.
Workaround: Installed ntp and removed it. -> /etc/ntp.conf now exists -> ntpdate-debian syncs system time.

BTW: I'm on lucid
greetings!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Mar 11 16:55:15 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: ntpdate 1:4.2.4p8+dfsg-1ubuntu1 [modified: usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian]
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: ntp
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686

** Affects: ntp (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid

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