*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1848309 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1848309
Confirming this is related to bug #1848309 except in this case was
caused by VBoxService.
$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d
└─disable-with-time-daemon.conf
Active: inactive (dead)
Condition: start condition failed at Mon 2020-01-06 22:27:32 AEDT; 4min 17s ago
└─ ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/VBoxService was not met
Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
Jan 04 17:09:56 ubuntu systemd[1]: Condition check resulted in Network Time
Synchronization being skipped.
After purging virtualbox-guest-utils and virtualbox-6.0, ntp sync was
successful:
$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled;
vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d
└─disable-with-time-daemon.conf
Active: active (running) since Tue 2020-01-07 10:59:06 AEDT; 4min 14s ago
Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
Main PID: 10499 (systemd-timesyn)
Status: "Synchronized to time server for the first time
[2001:67c:1560:8003::c7]:123 (ntp.ubuntu.com)."
Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 1.7M
CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-timesyncd.service
└─10499 /lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd
Jan 07 10:59:06 ubuntu systemd[1]: Starting Network Time Synchronization...
Jan 07 10:59:06 ubuntu systemd[1]: Started Network Time Synchronization.
Jan 07 11:03:17 ubuntu systemd-timesyncd[10499]: Synchronized to time server
for the first time [2001:67c:1560:8003::c7]:123 (ntp.ubuntu.com).
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1848309
"Automatic Date & Time" doesn't reflect the service status
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