[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#818846: ntpd: unable to bind to wildcard address :: - another process may be running - EXITING

[Narcis Garcia]

Reproduced with Debian 9:

$ sudo journalctl -b -p err
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1139]: unable to bind to wildcard address ::
- another process may be running - EXITING

$ sudo systemctl status ntp.service
· ntp.service - LSB: Start NTP daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/ntp; generated; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-11-23 14:21:54 CET; 23min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 729 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/ntp start (code=exited,
status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/ntp.service
           \u2514\u25001137 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -g -c
/run/ntp.conf.dhcp -u 118:125

nov 23 14:21:54 system systemd[1]: Started LSB: Start NTP daemon.
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1139]: proto: precision = 1.117 usec (-20)
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1137]: proto: precision = 1.117 usec (-20)
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1137]: Listen and drop on 0 v6wildcard [::]:123
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1137]: Listen and drop on 1 v4wildcard
0.0.0.0:123
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1137]: Listen normally on 2 lo 127.0.0.1:123
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1137]: Listen normally on 3 enp2s0
172.16.20.172:123
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1137]: Listen normally on 4 lo [::1]:123
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1137]: Listen normally on 5 enp2s0
[fe80::21e:33ff:fedf:1def%2]:123
nov 23 14:21:54 system ntpd[1137]: Listening on routing socket on fd #22
for interface updates


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