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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 09:14:09AM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
> 
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 11:25:44PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> > > 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
> > 
> > This last line is clearly a problem.  There are at least 2
> > processes that try to bind() to udp port 123.
> > 
> > Did you try a ps to see if there is still one running?
> 
> Sorry, forgot to mention this in the initial report. I ran ps after 
> bootup and there was no ntp procs running.
> 
> > Note that the first and second line have a different PID.  You
> > however seem to have at least a third PID mentioned there.
> > 
> > Can you try installing lockfile-progs and see if the problem goes away?
> 
> Yes, that helped.
> 
> ps aoutput looks like this after boot:
> root at genshi:~# ps aux |grep ntp
> root       568  0.0  0.1  20072  2440 ?        S    09:10   0:00 /bin/sh 
> /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate
> root       570  0.0  0.0   6268   628 ?        S    09:10   0:00 
> lockfile-create /var/lock/ntpdate
> root       622  0.0  0.1  22452  3724 ?        Ss   09:10   0:00 /bin/sh 
> /etc/init.d/ntp start
> root       663  0.0  0.0   6268   632 ?        S    09:10   0:00 
> lockfile-create /var/lock/ntpdate
> 
> Could it be ntpdate which is fucking up the start of ntpd here before?

Yes, and ntpdate recommends lockfile-progs ...


Kurt