It's still an issue, can we get a fix please? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ntp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1823098
Title: /etc/init.d/ntp prefers DHCP over configured /etc/ntp.conf Status in cloud-images: New Status in ntp package in Ubuntu: New Status in ntp source package in Xenial: New Bug description: Hi, On a few instances in a public cloud, mostly seen in GCE, ntp seems incorrectly set up with: | ubuntu@juju-453c71-0:~$ ntpq -pn | remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter | ============================================================================== | *169.254.169.254 71.79.79.71 2 u 737 1024 377 0.657 0.136 0.147 We have /etc/ntp.conf configured to use ntp.ubuntu.com as a 'pool' host. Turns out, it seems the /etc/init.d/ntp prefers the DHCP version over our configured ntp.conf: | if [ /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp -nt /etc/ntp.conf ]; then | NTPD_OPTS="$NTPD_OPTS -c /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp" | fi | ubuntu@juju-453c71-0:/etc$ ls -la /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp /etc/ntp.conf | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626 Feb 25 08:54 /etc/ntp.conf | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 897 Mar 29 21:00 /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp I think this is wrong, if /etc/ntp.conf is configured, it should use that over what DHCP/dhclient provides. | ubuntu@juju-453c71-0:~$ cat /etc/*release | DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 | DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS" | VERSION_ID="16.04" | ubuntu@juju-453c71-0:~$ dpkg-query -S /etc/init.d/ntp | ntp: /etc/init.d/ntp | ubuntu@juju-453c71-0:~$ apt-cache policy ntp | ntp: | Installed: 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.9 | Candidate: 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.9 | Version table: | *** 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu5.9 500 | 500 http://us-central1.gce.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages | 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages Thanks, Haw To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-images/+bug/1823098/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
