Bug#890095: systemd: Failed to start network time synchronization

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On Sun, 11 Feb 2018 03:38:51 -0200 Carlos Donizete Froes
<coringao at riseup.net> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 236-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> At startup, the following failures appear:
> 
> [FAILED] Failed to start network time synchronization.
> See 'systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service' for details.
> 
> After bootup, the command 'timedatectl' produces:
> 
> -----
> coringao at debian:~$ timedatectl
>                       Local time: dom 2018-02-11 03:03:45 -02
>                   Universal time: dom 2018-02-11 05:03:45 UTC
>                         RTC time: dom 2018-02-11 05:03:46
>                        Time zone: America/Sao_Paulo (-02, -0200)
>        System clock synchronized: yes
> systemd-timesyncd.service active: no
>                  RTC in local TZ: no
> -----
> 
> So I checked the statuses:
> 
> -----
> coringao at debian:~$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd
> ● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
>    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2018-02-11 02:15:58 -02; 49min ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
>   Process: 280 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>  Main PID: 280 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>    Status: "Shutting down..."
> -----
> 
> Can anyone explain what the problem is? 

For that we would need a more complete log. You can get that via journalctl.

That said, have you installed and enabled libnss-systemd? If not, please
do so, reboot and report back if systemd-timesyncd still fails.

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