[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#772990: /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian: does not synchronize time

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3.1+b1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/ntpdate-debian

Hello,

in the preinstalled default configuration with Debian pool servers
ntpdate-debian does not synchronize time.

Same error is reported when the Debian pool servers are replaced with
known time server.

~# cat /etc/default/ntpdate
# The settings in this file are used by the program ntpdate-debian, but not
# by the upstream program ntpdate.

# Set to "yes" to take the server list from /etc/ntp.conf, from package ntp,
# so you only have to keep it in one place.
NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=no

# List of NTP servers to use  (Separate multiple servers with spaces.)
# Not used if NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF is yes.
NTPSERVERS="tik.cesnet.cz"

# Additional options to pass to ntpdate
NTPOPTIONS=""
~# ntpdate tik.cesnet.cz
12 Dec 19:46:32 ntpdate[1236]: adjust time server 195.113.144.201 offset 0.001415 sec
~# ntpdate-debian
12 Dec 19:46:45 ntpdate[1237]: no server suitable for synchronization found
~# ntpdate-debian -v
12 Dec 19:54:24 ntpdate[1239]: ntpdate 4.2.6p5 at 1.2349-o Sat Nov  8 20:21:00 UTC 2014 (1)
12 Dec 19:54:32 ntpdate[1239]: no server suitable for synchronization found

Is this command useful for anything at all?

Thanks

Michal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (171, 'unstable'), (151, 'experimental'), (121, 'precise-updates'), (121, 'precise-security'), (121, 'precise'), (101, 'stable'), (101, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  dpkg         1.17.21
ii  libc6        2.19-13
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1j-1
ii  netbase      5.3

Versions of packages ntpdate recommends:
ii  lockfile-progs  0.1.17

ntpdate suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information