Bug#887343: systemd-timesyncd does not start with DynamicUser=yes

[Michael Biebl]

Am 15.01.2018 um 10:18 schrieb Guido Günther:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 236-3
> Severity: normal
> File: systemd-timesyncd.service
> 
> Hi,
> on a newly installed (without installing recommends) system¹ systemd-timesyncd fails to start like
> 
> $ 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 Mon 2018-01-15 08:58:10 UTC; 8min ago
>      Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
>   Process: 563 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>  Main PID: 563 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>    Status: "Shutting down..."
> 
> Jan 15 08:58:10 foo systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Service has no hold-off time, scheduling restart.
> Jan 15 08:58:10 foo systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
> Jan 15 08:58:10 foo systemd[1]: Stopped Network Time Synchronization.
> Jan 15 08:58:10 foo systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
> Jan 15 08:58:10 foo systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> Jan 15 08:58:10 foo systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Time Synchronization.
> 
> and the log has
> 
> Jan 15 08:58:09 foo systemd-timesyncd[563]: Cannot resolve user name systemd-timesync: No such process
> Jan 15 08:58:10 foo systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
> Jan 15 08:58:10 foo systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
> Jan 15 08:58:10 foo systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Time Synchronization.
> 
> This seems to be caused by the fact that libnss-systemd is not a hard
> dependency of systemd. I'm not sure what the best solution is? Having a
> service that is enabled by fails to start looks weird though. Maybe
> providing a static user isn't that bad?
> 

It requires libnss-systemd, yes. Do you not have it installed?
It's a recommends, so should be installed by default

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