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and subject line Bug#1011533: fixed in chrony 4.6.1-3+deb13u2
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regarding chrony: kdevops reboot-limit fails between 50-12,000 reboots
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: chrony
Version: 4.2-2
Severity: important
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
When using the new kdevops [0] reboot-limit [1] test to see how may reboots
can happen with debian-testing without a failure I ran have ran 3 tests
with different kernels with the following observations. The point of the
test is to simply instantiate vagrant debian-testing guests, and then
reboot them and detect with ansible if ssh access to the guest is
possible. The test fails upon an ssh timeout or crash. In the list below
a + indicates the test is still running. A single digit expresses how many
times reboots completed successfully.
kernel | reboots | with-fix
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
v5.10.105 | 500 | not-tested-yet
v5.17-rc7 | 1,200 | 2,000+
5.17.0-1-amd64 | 3,300+ | first-run-stil-running
Upon inspection on the failed boots on v5.10.105 and v5.17-rc7 I
noticed the following on both systems:
root@rebootlimit ~ # sudo systemctl list-units --failed
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
● [email protected] loaded failed failed ifup for eth0
I can see then (scraped from a console, sorry about formatting):
]: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
]: DHCPOFFER of 192.168.121.240 from 192.168.121.1
]: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.121.240 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
]: DHCPACK of 192.168.121.240 from 192.168.121.1
]: bound to 192.168.121.240 -- renewal in 1699 seconds.
nd to 192.168.121.240 -- renewal in 1699 seconds.
-parts: /etc/network/if-up.d/chrony exited with return code 1
p: failed to bring up eth0
[email protected]: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
[email protected]: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
The important line is:
May 21 10:58:58 rebootlimit sh[693]: run-parts: /etc/network/if-up.d/chrony
exixited with return code 1
Using $(virsh net-dhcp-leases vagrant-libvirt) I see no takers of the IP
address and so there has not been clashes. So my next best guesss given
the lack of output from chrony is that this is a race on bootup.
I'm still testing things but the following adjustment seems to have
helped so far.
--- /etc/network/if-up.d/chrony.old 2022-05-24 16:40:53.112439882 +0000
+++ /etc/network/if-up.d/chrony 2022-05-24 16:41:23.452471796 +0000
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
[ -x /usr/sbin/chronyd ] || exit 0
if [ -e /run/chrony/chronyd.pid ]; then
+ systemctl is-system-running --wait
chronyc onoffline > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
[0] https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops
[1]
https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops/blob/master/workflows/demos/reboot-limit/Kconfig
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.105 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages chrony depends on:
ii adduser 3.121
ii init-system-helpers 1.62
ii iproute2 5.17.0-2
ii libc6 2.33-7
ii libcap2 1:2.44-1
ii libedit2 3.1-20210910-1
ii libgnutls30 3.7.4-2
ii libnettle8 3.7.3-1
ii libseccomp2 2.5.4-1
ii tzdata 2022a-1
ii ucf 3.0043
chrony recommends no packages.
Versions of packages chrony suggests:
ii bind9-dnsutils [dnsutils] 1:9.18.1-1
pn networkd-dispatcher <none>
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/network/if-up.d/chrony changed:
set -e
[ -x /usr/sbin/chronyd ] || exit 0
if [ -e /run/chrony/chronyd.pid ]; then
systemctl is-system-running --wait
chronyc onoffline > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
exit 0
-- no debconf information
--- /etc/network/if-up.d/chrony.old 2022-05-24 16:40:53.112439882 +0000
+++ /etc/network/if-up.d/chrony 2022-05-24 16:41:23.452471796 +0000
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
[ -x /usr/sbin/chronyd ] || exit 0
if [ -e /run/chrony/chronyd.pid ]; then
+ systemctl is-system-running --wait
chronyc onoffline > /dev/null 2>&1
fi
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Source: chrony
Source-Version: 4.6.1-3+deb13u2
Done: Vincent Blut <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
chrony, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Vincent Blut <[email protected]> (supplier of updated chrony package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing [email protected])
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:05:59 +0200
Source: chrony
Architecture: source
Version: 4.6.1-3+deb13u2
Distribution: trixie
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Vincent Blut <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Vincent Blut <[email protected]>
Closes: 1011533
Changes:
chrony (4.6.1-3+deb13u2) trixie; urgency=medium
.
* debian/chrony.if-{post-down,up}:
- Adjust the if-up and if-down hook scripts so that they always exit
successfully. (Closes: #1011533)
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