Bug#887396: systemd-timesyncd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.

[Andre Verwijs]

Package: systemd
Version: 236-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

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systemd-timesyncd.service fail at boot with: 

systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Service has no hold-off time, scheduling restart.
systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 10.
systemd[1]: Stopped Network Time Synchronization.
systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Time Synchronization.

problably related to "DefaultRestartSec" or "DefaultStart*" settings within /etc/systemd/system.cong
witch controlles start/stop/restart of background services.. 


-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE= (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages systemd depends on:
ii  adduser         3.116
ii  libacl1         2.2.52-3+b1
ii  libapparmor1    2.11.1-4
ii  libaudit1       1:2.8.2-1
ii  libblkid1       2.30.2-0.1
ii  libc6           2.26-2
ii  libcap2         1:2.25-1.2
ii  libcryptsetup4  2:1.7.5-1
ii  libgcrypt20     1.8.1-4
ii  libgpg-error0   1.27-5
ii  libidn11        1.33-2.1
ii  libip4tc0       1.6.1-2+b1
ii  libkmod2        24-1
ii  liblz4-1        0.0~r131-2+b1
ii  liblzma5        5.2.2-1.3
ii  libmount1       2.30.2-0.1
ii  libpam0g        1.1.8-3.6
ii  libseccomp2     2.3.1-2.1
ii  libselinux1     2.7-2
ii  libsystemd0     236-2
ii  mount           2.30.2-0.1
ii  procps          2:3.3.12-3
ii  util-linux      2.30.2-0.1

Versions of packages systemd recommends:
ii  dbus            1.12.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd  236-2

Versions of packages systemd suggests:
ii  policykit-1        0.105-18
ii  systemd-container  236-2

Versions of packages systemd is related to:
pn  dracut           <none>
ii  initramfs-tools  0.130
ii  udev             236-2

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/systemd/system.conf changed [not included]
/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information