Re: strange time problem with bullseye

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 02:33:05PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote:
> On Thursday 07 March 2024 09:02:44 am Teemu Likonen wrote:
> > systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
> 
> This got me some interesting results:
> 
> ● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
>   Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d
>            └─disable-with-time-daemon.conf
>    Active: inactive (dead)
> Condition: start condition failed at Wed 2024-02-14 16:17:31 EST; 3 weeks 0 days ago
>            └─ ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/VBoxService was not met
>      Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
> 
> Hmm.

Are you running that on a virtualbox client, or a virtualbox host?

In any case, you might find it interesting to read the unit file in
question ("systemctl cat systemd-timesyncd.service").  It looks like
you've got one of the slightly older kind, where the service is always
installed, but is prevented from running if any of several different
programs is found.