Following the reproduction instructions:
1. Booted the Pi 5 desktop image (freshly flashed). Ran through first-
time setup.
2. cat /run/systemd/netif/state
cat: /run/systemd/netif/state: No such file or directory
3. timedatectl timesync-status
Command requires systemd-timesyncd.service, but it is not available: The name
org.freedesktop.timesync1 was not provided by any .service files
> Workaround (confirmed working): a tmpfiles.d entry removing the stale file at
> boot:
> # /etc/tmpfiles.d/remove-stale-netif-state.conf
> r! /run/systemd/netif/state
How is this "confirmed working" if the file never exists in the first
place?
> ... the wall clock ends up minutes wrong within days of uptime and
drifts freely
Can't say I've ever noticed clock drift on my desktop Pi 5 that runs for
literal weeks on end. But this isn't terribly surprising, given that
timesync on fresh resolute installs is handled by chrony (not sure if
this is *always* pulled in on upgrades; that's an angle to check).
Anyway, it seems to be happily synchronized:
$ chronyc tracking
Reference ID : 45AE48D5 (ntp-nts-2.ps5.canonical.com)
Stratum : 3
Ref time (UTC) : Wed Jul 15 11:31:20 2026
System time : 0.000041788 seconds fast of NTP time
Last offset : +0.000107366 seconds
RMS offset : 0.000209605 seconds
Frequency : 6.900 ppm slow
Residual freq : +0.361 ppm
Skew : 2.283 ppm
Root delay : 0.012249299 seconds
Root dispersion : 0.001555360 seconds
Update interval : 64.6 seconds
Leap status : Normal
Could the AI that (quite obviously) wrote all this try a bit harder,
please?
** Changed in: ubuntu-raspi-settings (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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systemd-timesyncd never syncs on Pi images: stale
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