Public bug reported: We recently installed 12.04 LTS (32-bit) with NIS authentication and found two bugs with ntp, the first was ntp was not installed (even though the clock manager allowed, and defaulted to, "internet time") and the second more serious bug reported here is we discovered that ntp is being started before the system is capable of resolving DNS, so only time servers given by IP address are found. Those given by name (ntp0.dundee.ac.uk and similar) are not found and, as ntp never performs DNS lookup after initially starting, they remain unavailable until you manually issue the command "/etc/init.d/ntp restart". This was not a problem with 10.04 LTS, and I also though upstart was supposed to handle such starting sequence dependencies?
$lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Release: 12.04 $ apt-cache policy ntp ntp: Installed: 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3 Candidate: 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3 Version table: *** 1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1ubuntu3 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status We expected ntp to be started after the network interfaces were up and DNS look-up possible. ** Affects: ntp (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ntp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999725 Title: broken start-up dependencies for ntp To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/999725/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs