[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#788014: does not start at bootup

[Evgeni Golov]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-7
Severity: important

Hi,

after upgrading this machine to jessie, ntpd does not start at boot.
This might be systemd related.

root at genshi:~# systemctl status ntp
● ntp.service - LSB: Start NTP daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/ntp)
   Active: active (exited) since Sun 2015-06-07 21:18:52 CEST; 31min ago
  Process: 616 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/ntp start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jun 07 21:18:52 genshi.die-welt.net ntpd[648]: ntpd 4.2.6p5 at 1.2349-o Fri Apr 10 19:04:04 UTC 2015 (1)
Jun 07 21:18:52 genshi.die-welt.net ntpd[650]: proto: precision = 0.161 usec
Jun 07 21:18:52 genshi.die-welt.net ntp[616]: Starting NTP server: ntpd.

root at genshi:~# journalctl --unit ntp
-- Logs begin at Sun 2015-06-07 21:18:45 CEST, end at Sun 2015-06-07 21:48:29 CEST. --
Jun 07 21:18:52 genshi.die-welt.net ntpd[648]: ntpd 4.2.6p5 at 1.2349-o Fri Apr 10 19:04:04 UTC 2015 (1)
Jun 07 21:18:52 genshi.die-welt.net ntpd[650]: proto: precision = 0.161 usec
Jun 07 21:18:52 genshi.die-welt.net ntp[616]: Starting NTP server: ntpd.

root at genshi:~# journalctl |grep ntp
Jun 07 21:18:52 genshi.die-welt.net ntpd[648]: ntpd 4.2.6p5 at 1.2349-o Fri Apr 10 19:04:04 UTC 2015 (1)
Jun 07 21:18:52 genshi.die-welt.net ntpd[650]: proto: precision = 0.161 usec
Jun 07 21:18:52 genshi.die-welt.net ntp[616]: Starting NTP server: ntpd.
Jun 07 21:18:53 genshi.die-welt.net ntpd[650]: unable to bind to wildcard address 0.0.0.0 - another process may be running - EXITING

Not sure the multiple PIDs should worry me, is this maybe related to #581670?
The machine has one inet and one inet6 entry for eth0, and one lo in /e/n/interfaces.

Calling "systemctl restart ntp.service" starts ntpd just fine.
("start" does not work, as systemd thinks the unit is active)

Greets
Evgeni

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser      3.113+nmu3
ii  dpkg         1.17.25
ii  libc6        2.19-18
ii  libcap2      1:2.24-8
ii  libedit2     3.1-20140620-2
ii  libopts25    1:5.18.4-3
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1k-3
ii  lsb-base     4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  netbase      5.3

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii  perl  5.20.2-3+deb8u1

Versions of packages ntp suggests:
pn  ntp-doc  <none>

-- no debconf information