After reboot I see that the gateway of my local workgroup net (cheetahnew) has time difference about one minute to the other systems in the local workgroup net. 'systemctl status ntpdate' shows, that there was an error: root@cheetahnew:/root(3)# systemctl status ntpdate !!! The following installed packages are masked: - sci-geosciences/googleearth-7.1.1.1871::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage_cheetahnew/profiles/package.mask: # Julian Ospald <hasufell@gentoo.org> (21 Jul 2013) # Mask all unfetchable versions and those with tons of random # bugs and segfaults (all). Don't ask for a version bump unless # there is a working release. For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. ntpdate.service - Set time via NTP using ntpdate Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/ntpdate.service; enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/ntpdate.service.d └─00gentoo.conf Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2014-02-14 14:02:24 CET; 18min ago Process: 2931 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpdate -b -u $SERVER (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 2931 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) CGroup: /system.slice/ntpdate.service Feb 14 14:02:23 cheetahnew systemd[1]: Starting Set time via NTP using ntpdate... Feb 14 14:02:24 cheetahnew systemd[1]: ntpdate.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE Feb 14 14:02:24 cheetahnew systemd[1]: Failed to start Set time via NTP using ntpdate. Feb 14 14:02:24 cheetahnew systemd[1]: Unit ntpdate.service entered failed state. If I restart the ntpdate.service everything is fine: root@cheetahnew:/root(4)# systemctl restart ntpdate [1]+ Done compare_conf_files root@cheetahnew:/root(5)# systemctl status ntpdate ntpdate.service - Set time via NTP using ntpdate Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/ntpdate.service; enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/ntpdate.service.d └─00gentoo.conf Active: active (exited) since Fri 2014-02-14 14:16:50 CET; 4s ago Process: 4756 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpdate -b -u $SERVER (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 4756 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Feb 14 14:16:50 cheetahnew systemd[1]: Started Set time via NTP using ntpdate. root@cheetahnew:/root(6)# uptime 14:17:28 up 20 min, 1 user, load average: 0.49, 0.55, 0.29 root@cheetahnew:/root(11)# ll /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ | grep ntp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 Nov 19 16:45 ntpdate.service -> /usr/lib64/systemd/system/ntpdate.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Nov 19 16:45 ntpd.service -> /usr/lib64/systemd/system/ntpd.service The time server is in our local institute network and the access to time servers outside the institute network is blocked by our firewall. In /etc/systemd/system/ntpdate.service.d/00gentoo.conf I have: root@cheetahnew:/root(14)# cat /etc/systemd/system/ntpdate.service.d/00gentoo.conf [Service] Environment="SERVER=10.101.10.22 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 1.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 3.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 10.101.10.22" I see it is redundant, but I suppose this is not reason of my problem. root@cheetahnew:/root(20)# ifconfig | grep -u1 eth.: eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.101.149.187 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.101.149.255 -- eth1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.2.255 I.e., eth1 is the interface to my local workgroup net and eth0 is the interface to the local institute net. This issue seems to be happen an any reboot. Any hint is appreciated. Reproducible: Always root@cheetahnew:/root(22)# emerge --info Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.2, glibc-2.18-r1, 3.13.3-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.13.3-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i3-2120_CPU_@_3.30GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 7865512 total, 6906480 free KiB Swap: 50331640 total, 50331640 free Timestamp of tree: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 03:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45-r1 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.6, 3.3.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.24-r2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 4.0-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 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I remember I had this issue also with openRC when network wasn't accessible at the time it started. Situation improved a lot after enabling NetworkManager-wait-online.service
I think this is a CANTFIX; we currently have no reliable way to delay ntpdate.service from running before an internet connection is available. I would recommend you migrate to a more robust time sync method, like ntpd.
Well, I think it would be reasonable to put 'After=network-online.target' there.
Sure. However, it already has After=network.target, which happens to have the same effect of delaying until after NetworkManager-wait-online.service for NM users. So there would be no practical difference.
It will have a practical difference when someone enables proper unit having Before= only on network-online.target.
+ 01 Jul 2014; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> files/ntpdate.service, + ntp-4.2.6_p5-r10.ebuild: + ntpdate needs network to be really connected and working (#501298 by Juergen + Rose), toggle options for usage with 'caps' USE (#514660 by Matthias Maier). +
