As I wrote, I was using the very latest Eoan packages for the past months as this bug occurred and persisted. Therefore I could not provide any specific Ubuntu version as the version number was just "latest development".
############## related jounrnalctl messages Oct 21 12:37:19 sun dbus-daemon[1577]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.timedate1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service' requested by ':1.284' (uid=1000 pid=21820 comm="gnome-control-center datetime " label="unconfined") Oct 21 12:37:19 sun systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Succeeded. Oct 21 12:37:19 sun systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service... Oct 21 12:37:19 sun dbus-daemon[1577]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1' Oct 21 12:37:19 sun systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service. Oct 21 12:37:49 sun dbus-daemon[1577]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.timedate1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service' requested by ':1.284' (uid=1000 pid=21820 comm="gnome-control-center datetime " label="unconfined") Oct 21 12:37:49 sun systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Succeeded. Oct 21 12:37:49 sun systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service... Oct 21 12:37:49 sun dbus-daemon[1577]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1' Oct 21 12:37:49 sun systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service. Oct 21 12:37:58 sun xdg-desktop-por[4719]: Failed to get application states: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.portal.Error.Failed: Could not get window list: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: App introspection not allowed Oct 21 12:38:19 sun dbus-daemon[1577]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.timedate1' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service' requested by ':1.284' (uid=1000 pid=21820 comm="gnome-control-center datetime " label="unconfined") Oct 21 12:38:19 sun systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Succeeded. Oct 21 12:38:19 sun systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service... Oct 21 12:38:20 sun dbus-daemon[1577]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1' Oct 21 12:38:20 sun systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service. ############## ubuntu-bug asks me to provide a PID and I have really other priorities to deal with than to figure out which PID it is supposed to be... alex@sun:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 19.10 Release: 19.10 Codename: eoan I hope this helps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1848309 Title: "Automatic Date & Time" is broken Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: In my always up-to-date Eoan the "Automatic Date & Time" adjustment is broken since around two months. 0 * * * * sudo ntpdate 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org >> /tmp/ntpsync ...is my crontab workaround to get proper time on Ubuntu Eoan. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1848309/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
