[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#561622: Bug 56122: Original bug report misunderstood; root problem not corrected

[Simon McVittie]

reopen 561622
reassign 561622 ntp
found 561622 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8lenny3
thanks

On 13/06/13 01:30, Carl Mascott wrote:
> Bug 56122: Original bug report misunderstood; root problem not corrected

Back in 2009, the bug was assigned to libnss-mdns. Kurt Roeckx
recommended a change to /etc/nsswitch.conf. While updating libnss-mdns I
made that change to nsswitch.conf for new installations.

Please try removing "mdns4" from the end of the hosts line in
nsswitch.conf (equivalent to the change I made in libnss-mdns 0.10-4).

If that change to nsswitch.conf does not solve your problem then I can't
do anything more for this from libnss-mdns' point of view; reassigning
back to ntp.

> No network service should be started until NetworkManager indicates that
> the network interface is up.

This is not practical to achieve in a world where networking is not 100%
reliable (i.e. wifi and mobile broadband exist) - a machine should not
fail to boot because it can't get on a network.

> It is impractical to try to bulletproof every network service to deal
> with the network interface being down when the service tries to start.

On my laptop, it appears that ntpd does respond to changes in connectivity:

Jun 13 11:45:07 archetype NetworkManager[1370]: <info> Activation
(wlan0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start) complete.
...
Jun 13 11:45:07 archetype dhclient: bound to x.x.x.194 -- renewal in
18564 seconds.
...
Jun 13 11:45:11 archetype ntpd[1697]: Listen normally on 13 wlan0
x.x.x.194 UDP 123
Jun 13 11:45:11 archetype ntpd[1697]: Listen normally on 14 wlan0
fe80::x:x:x:x UDP 123
Jun 13 11:45:11 archetype ntpd[1697]: peers refreshed

so this may in fact already be solved.

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