[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#865631: ntp: Doesn't start

[Christian Marillat]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Fail to upgrade or here start after a removal.

Here is the apt-get output and then 'journalctl -xe' :

Setting up ntp (1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-5) ...
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ntp.service → /lib/systemd/system/ntp.service.
Job for ntp.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl  status ntp.service" and "journalctl  -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript ntp, action "start" failed.
● ntp.service - Network Time Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/ntp.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-06-23 12:38:34 CEST; 62ms ago
     Docs: man:ntpd(8)
  Process: 16808 ExecStart=/usr/lib/ntp/ntp-systemd-wrapper (code=exited, status=226/NAMESPACE)

Jun 23 12:38:34 guillaume.marillat.net systemd[1]: Starting Network Time Service...
Jun 23 12:38:34 guillaume.marillat.net systemd[16808]: ntp.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/lib/ntp/ntp-systemd-wrapper: No such file or directory
Jun 23 12:38:34 guillaume.marillat.net systemd[1]: ntp.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=226
Jun 23 12:38:34 guillaume.marillat.net systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Time Service.
Jun 23 12:38:34 guillaume.marillat.net systemd[1]: ntp.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 23 12:38:34 guillaume.marillat.net systemd[1]: ntp.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
dpkg: error processing package ntp (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- Subject: Unit ntp.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit ntp.service has begun starting up.
Jun 23 12:42:33 guillaume.marillat.net systemd[18514]: ntp.service: Failed at step NAMESPACE spawning /usr/lib/ntp/ntp-systemd-wrapper: No such file or directory
-- Subject: Process /usr/lib/ntp/ntp-systemd-wrapper could not be executed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- The process /usr/lib/ntp/ntp-systemd-wrapper could not be executed and failed.
-- 
-- The error number returned by this process is 2.
Jun 23 12:42:33 guillaume.marillat.net systemd[1]: ntp.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=226
Jun 23 12:42:33 guillaume.marillat.net systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Time Service.
-- Subject: Unit ntp.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: https://www.debian.org/support
-- 
-- Unit ntp.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.

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Christian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 3.10.105-0-pine64-longsleep (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser              3.115
ii  dpkg                 1.18.24
ii  init-system-helpers  1.48
ii  libc6                2.24-12
ii  libcap2              1:2.25-1
ii  libedit2             3.1-20170329-1
ii  libopts25            1:5.18.12-3
ii  libssl1.1            1.1.0f-3
ii  lsb-base             9.20161125
ii  netbase              5.4
ii  tzdata               2017b-2

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii  perl  5.24.1-4
pn  sntp  <none>

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

-- no debconf information