[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] sysv-rc: ntp brought up in wrong order with dhcp and ipv6 enabled

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Peter Eisentraut]
> The ntp init script depends on $network, so if the network is not
> enabled by then, something else is wrong.

This is the old and fundamental problem with the debian boot, where
things are becoming event based and the old static sequencing do no
longer work.  It is to work around these kind of problems the NFS
mounting was rewritten to happen when ifupdown report that a interface
is available, instead of hoping for all the network interfaces to be
configured before mountnfs.sh is executed.  Perhaps ntp need something
similar?  Depending on $network might not be enough, as long as the
networking script to not wait for all network interfaces to be
configured. :/

This is independent of boot sequencing mechanism, just to make that
clear.  These problems depend on dhcp server response times and it do
not matter if dependency based boot ordering is used or not.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen