Re: strange time problem with bullseye
On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 08:31:16AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
So I purged ntpsec and re-installed chrony which I had done once before with
no luck but this time timedatectl was stopped and it worked!
Now, how do I assure timedatectl stays stopped on a reboot?
Which version of Debian is this? I'm guessing it's fairly recent,
because ntpsec is fairly recent.
In the most recent version or two, systemd-timesyncd is a separate
package, and it cannot coexist with chrony (they both provide the
"time-daemon" virtual package). So, if this is Debian 12 (maybe 11
also, dunno about older), then when you installed either ntpsec or
chrony, it should have removed the systemd-timesyncd package.
You should be able to verify that the systemd-timesyncd package is
removed.
In some older versions of Debian, systemd-timesyncd was part of the
systemd package, and was always installed, even if you installed ntp
or chrony. In these versions, the systemd unit file for timesync
had checks for the existence of the binaries belonging to ntp, chrony
and openntpd, and would prevent timesync from running if any of those
was found.
I don't remember which version did which thing.
And of course, if you are not actually running Debian, then all bets are
off. You're on your own with Armbian, Raspbian, etc.
.
and because the printer is arm stuff, its old armbian buster vintage.
mks@mkspi:/etc/init.d$ sudo apt purge systemd-timesyncd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'systemd-timesyncd' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
mks@mkspi:/etc/init.d$
yet timedatectl is still there and shows:
mks@mkspi:/etc/init.d$ timedatectl
Local time: Thu 2024-03-07 11:15:53 EST
Universal time: Thu 2024-03-07 16:15:53 UTC
RTC time: Thu 2024-03-07 11:04:39
Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500)
System clock synchronized: no
NTP service: inactive
RTC in local TZ: no
mks@mkspi:/etc/init.d$
And the local time shown above is correct to the second.
Thanks Greg, take care & stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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