Bug#888850: systemd-timesyncd fails to start

[Michael Biebl]

Control: forcemerge 887343 -1

Am 30.01.2018 um 17:12 schrieb John Williams:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 236-6

There is no such version in the archive?
Please consider using reportbug next time, which will include correct
version information and lots of diagnostic info which helps to triage bugs.

> 
> After a recent installation of buster (aarch64), systemd-timesyncd fails to start 
> 
> systemctl status systemd-timesyncd says:
>   systemd-timesyncd.service: Start request repeated too quickly
>   systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'
> 
> I notice that /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service contains both the lines:
>   DynamicUser=yes
> and
>   User=systemd-timesync
> but there is no such user as 'systemd-timesync' in /etc/passwd; if I add such a user, the service starts up correctly, running as that user.

I would recommend installing libnss-systemd.
That said, since 236-4, systemd-timesync will cope if no
systemd-timesync user exists.

Closing as duplicate of 887343


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