On 12/05/2015 01:21 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
Well, Google shall help! The two articles seem much technical for a kid
like me. Still, the content made me feel that there shall be something
convincing, which is why I posted it on this mail.
1.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-February/446722.html
# for NTP
This post supplies two "fixes" for the NTP problem, but only by not
allowing the service to start in the first place, or by doing what has
been suggested earlier in the thread -- forcing the system to shut down
without waiting. I do want my systems to benefit from syncrhonization
with time sources. And the purpose of all of the discussion is to
actually find out what's wrong with what component(s) of the system
that's causing the problem in the first place.
2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1044602
# for CUPS
I actually posted that link earlier in the thread in my reply of 12/02
to Don Armstrong. The indication is that CUPS was interacting with the
avahi daemon both directly and indirectly (via systemd configuration).
Especially if the problem is caused by the direct interaction, there's
not much of anything that an end user could do to fix the problem --
except report it. And that would require a lot of work to figure out
what really is the culprit. That's something that's well beyond my skill
level, but Michael Biebl had been pursuing the matter offline by
providing the monkey (me) with step-by-step instructions to help him
suss out the issues.
Unfortunately, I have discovered a separate interfering issue on my
systems which may have muddied the waters. I'm not sure whether or not
Michael will be continuing to work on my particular problem since
eliminating the interfering issue has essentially fixed both the CUPS
and NTP problems for me.
The message may be irrelevant due to lack of knowledge. So you may
ignore it if it is so.
Regards
Himanshu Shekhar
Not at all. I appreciate your interest, and I would certainly not ignore
you. I intend to report back with the findings in my particular case
when I know a little more.
In the meantime, we should remember that others have reported the same
issue with CUPS and NTP. I suspect that those others are unlikely (IMO)
to be running systems with the same configuration as mine. So the
problem with CUPS and NTP vs. systemd is probably real -- even if it
might only be a corner case.
Regards,
JP