A-ha! I wasn't seeing things after all. Our test images install the "systemd-timesyncd" package (as we also run tests against that), and that removes the chrony package and installs the mask:
# apt install systemd-timesyncd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: chrony The following NEW packages will be installed: systemd-timesyncd 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 30.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 364 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish-updates/main amd64 systemd-timesyncd amd64 248.3-1ubuntu8.2 [30.8 kB] Fetched 30.8 kB in 0s (82.3 kB/s) dpkg: chrony: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: systemd depends on systemd-timesyncd | time-daemon; however: Package systemd-timesyncd is not installed. Package time-daemon is not installed. Package systemd-timesyncd which provides time-daemon is not installed. Package chrony which provides time-daemon is to be removed. # ls -l /etc/systemd/system/chrony.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 24 12:16 /etc/systemd/system/chrony.service -> /dev/null Mystery solved! So, sorry for the noise! ** Changed in: freeipa (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1966181 Title: ipa-client-install fails on restarting non-existing chrony.service To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freeipa/+bug/1966181/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
