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Re: date & X copy/paste broke on upgrading to Debian 11



Thanks everybody for your input.

Does anybody know why the X copy/paste issue is happening? So far I
have only got help with time.


On Sun, 6 Feb 2022 18:54:26 +0000
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sun 06 Feb 2022 at 12:09:39 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Feb 06, 2022 at 10:42:31AM -0600, David Wright wrote:
> > > That said, I notice you have ntp installed. Does that mean that
> > > you're keeping your time synchronised with ntp and, if so, what
> > > do you do about systemd-timesyncd, which I understand is enabled
> > > by default since several Debian versions ago.
> > 
> > If an NTP package is installed, systemd-timesyncd is not used.  It
> > just never starts.
> > 
> > On my system, it's not even installed.
> > 
> > After digging around a bit, I think Debian has changed something on me,
> > which I didn't notice until now.
> > 
> > In older versions of Debian, systemd-timesyncd and ntp (or chrony, etc.)
> > would coexist.  systemd-timesyncd.service was configured so that the
> > daemon wouldn't be started if any of the other NTP daemons existed on
> > the system.
> > 
> > I can no longer see that in the systemd-timesyncd.service file (which
> > I'm viewing as
> > <https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/blob/debian/master/units/systemd-timesyncd.service.in>
> > because it's not on my system).
> > 
> > Instead, the ntp and systemd-timesyncd *packages* now appear to have
> > 
> > Provides: time-daemon
> > 
> > which might make them mutually exclusive.
> 
> It does. Installation of chrony or ntp removeds the traditional
> systemd-timesyncd package.
> 
> -- 
> Brian.
> 


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