[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#479719: Bug#479719: ntpdate: leaves lock file hanging around

[Kurt Roeckx]

severity 479719 important
severity 478655 important
reassign 478655 ntpdate
merge 479719 478655
thanks

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:59:43AM +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Package: ntpdate
> Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-4
> Severity: serious
> Justification: breaks boot process
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> ntpdate hangs the boot process in certain cases: it starts
> /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate with set -e, but the calls to
> ntpdate-debian exit with an error message, so the script terminates
> immediately, and thus the lockfile is not removed, from the code:

Yes, it has already been reported.


Kurt