[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#802638: Bug#802638: ntpd fails to start with "Cannot find user ID 113"

[Tristan Seligmann]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 at 09:07 Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 01:40:06AM +0200, Tristan Seligmann wrote:
> > Package: ntp
> > Version: 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-1
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> > As per subject. This may well be a duplicate of #793745, however:
> >
> > - I am using the default ntp.conf shipped with the package, including the
> >   "rlimit memlock 0" line.
>
> Can you try with "rlimit memlock -1" instead?  It seems "0" now
> means everything, and -1 means no locking.
>

Ah, that would explain it. Changing it to -1 does work (I guess the default
config should be changed as well, and perhaps a NEWS.Debian entry for those
using modified configs?)
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