[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#483789: hangs at 'Starting NTP server: ntpd'

[Y Giridhar Appaji Nag]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-5
Severity: important

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$ sudo apt-get install ntp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  ntp-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed
  ntp
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/425kB of archives.
After this operation, 1040kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package ntp.
(Reading database ... 130911 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ntp (from .../ntp_1%3a4.2.4p4+dfsg-5_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up ntp (1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-5) ...
Starting NTP server: ntpd

[and it hangs here ...]

[loktak elinks]Om:-} ps aux | grep ntp
root      4426  0.0  0.0   1700   396 tty1     S    09:11   0:00 lockfile-touch /var/lock/ntpdate
root      9236 11.5  1.4  18292 14652 pts/8    S+   10:23   0:01 apt-get install ntp
root      9389  4.3  0.6   8864  6436 pts/16   Ss+  10:23   0:00 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 16 --configure ntp
root      9390  0.0  0.1   3792  1120 pts/16   S+   10:23   0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/ntp.postinst configure 
root      9413  0.0  0.1   3852  1224 pts/16   S+   10:23   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d ntp start
root      9429  0.0  0.1   3868  1256 pts/16   S+   10:23   0:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/ntp start
root      9433  0.0  0.0   1700   448 pts/16   S+   10:23   0:00 lockfile-create /var/lock/ntpdate

eventually it fails saying lockfile-create failed.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                      3.107       add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                        2.7-11      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                      1:1.10-14   support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                 5.2-3       GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                  0.9.8g-10.1 SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.2-12      Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  netbase                      4.32        Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii  perl                          5.10.0-10  Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

- -- no debconf information

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