Bug#997836: linuxptp's timemaster service and missing chrony package causing log errors
Package: linuxptp
Version: 3.1-2.1
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: jason.lee.quinn+debian@gmail.com
Dear Maintainer,
Output of "journalctl -p err" was giving error lines such as
Oct 25 20:34:14 mycomputername timemaster[862]: [4.900] failed to spawn
/usr/sbin/chronyd: No such file or directory
"timemaster" here, I believe, is referring to the systemd timemaster service
from the linuxptp package on
Debian (I'm not sure about that). I don't have the chrony package installed so
this error makes sense for
that reason. If it's true that this error traces to the linuxptp package, the
error is
unexpected because the linuxptp package does not list the chrony package as
either recommended or suggested for
installation and wasn't installed when I upgraded a couple of days ago to
bullseye from buster.
Trying to install the chrony package shows that it would require removing the
systemd-timesyncd package.
At this point, it's unclear what a user not familiar with the intricacies of
timekeeping on
linux should do and I'm reluctant to start uninstalling packages and risk
falling down a rabbit hole.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-9-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not
set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages linuxptp depends on:
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2
linuxptp recommends no packages.
linuxptp suggests no packages.
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