[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#793745: ntp fails to start

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2015-07-26 19:34:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> After today's update ntp no longer starts on my Sid system.  After
> being gone on travel for ten days I return and update Sid and now ntp
> isn't running.
> 
> The log message reports:
[...]

This problem doesn't occur on my up-to-date sid machine
(still with sysvinit). The ntpd logs:

Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2471]: ntpd 4.2.8p3 at 1.3265-o Sat Jul 25 15:02:27 UTC 2015 (1): Starting
Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2471]: Command line: /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -u 113:121
Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2522]: proto: precision = 0.068 usec (-24)
Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2522]: Listen and drop on 0 v6wildcard [::]:123
Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2522]: Listen and drop on 1 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0:123
Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2522]: Listen normally on 2 lo 127.0.0.1:123
Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2522]: Listen normally on 3 eth0 140.77.13.48:123
Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2522]: Listen normally on 4 lo [::1]:123
Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2522]: Listen normally on 5 eth0 [fe80::21f:29ff:fe04:3efb%2]:123
Jul 28 13:49:11 ypig ntpd[2522]: Listening on routing socket on fd #22 for interface updates
Jul 28 13:49:12 ypig ntpd[2522]: Soliciting pool server 91.121.165.146
Jul 28 13:49:13 ypig ntpd[2522]: Soliciting pool server 95.81.173.155
[...]

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