Re: strange time problem with bullseye/buster
On 3/7/24 12:19, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 11:29:47 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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.
Debian's buster's systemd (241) has timesyncd built-in, so you may
find that ls -l /lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd still finds it.
The output from timedatectl is worrying. I would monitor chrony and
check its logs to see if it it's doing anything. After all, you had
ntpsec running until a "moment" ago, so you'd hardly expect the clock
to be wrong by now.
At the instant I removed ntpsec and minute later whem I re-installed
chrony, the time on that printer was around 20 hours stale. By about a
minute after chrony started, which the install did, time was synchronized.
And still is. Somehow, it resurrected the customized
/etc/chrony/chrony.conf which pointed it at this machines ntpsec server.
So I didn't have to re-invent that wheel. It just Worked. Memory in the
u-sd card? IDK.
I have NDI how to extract chrony's logs from journalctl.
I tried installing chrony in 2017 (jessie), and it appeared unable
to slew the clock five seconds in two days of interrupted running.
Cheers,
David.
Thank you David, take care & stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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