fresh gentoo install. net-misc/chrony-3.5-r2 was latest stable version and installed but failed to start. [quote] * Starting chronyd ... * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/chronyd' * Failed to start chronyd [ !! ] * ERROR: chronyd failed to start [/quote] Noticed ntp user wasn't created yet. checked newer versions which change whether ntp user is needed or not but no newer ebuild actually creates ntp user. Checked opennntp for comparison and it seems chrony needs [quote] enewgroup ntp enewuser ntp -1 -1 "${NTP_HOME}" ntp [/quote] Reproducible: Always
The newer ebuilds actually depend on an ntp user. The problem is the path to the config is wrong. I'll fix this as I caused it.
(In reply to Sam James (sec padawan) from comment #1) > The newer ebuilds actually depend on an ntp user. The problem is the path to > the config is wrong. > As a workaround, modify /etc/conf.d/chronyd to drop the '-u ntp -F 1'.
Thanks for working on this! So your going to use the enewuser command to add the ntp user in the ebuilds? Otherwise, if chrony is the first time daemon installed it will still fail without the ntp user in fresh, clean gentoo installs right? Isn't that why other daemons such as openntp create the user ntp in their ebuilds?
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=c3d88f854528be87d8bb689c5dc456a3aab2d64f commit c3d88f854528be87d8bb689c5dc456a3aab2d64f Author: Sam James (sam_c) <sam@cmpct.info> AuthorDate: 2020-04-19 20:54:06 +0000 Commit: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-05-02 10:43:27 +0000 net-misc/chrony: Fix paths to config file OpenRC only; systemd unaffected by issue. New "capsified" versions will use new config file, current stable chrony now has a fixed file. Revbump is complicated here given -r3, ..., already exists. This should not have affected many users so this seems like the simplest solution. Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/719876 Signed-off-by: Sam James (sam_c) <sam@cmpct.info> Signed-off-by: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> net-misc/chrony/chrony-3.5-r4.ebuild | 2 +- net-misc/chrony/chrony-4.0_pre1-r2.ebuild | 2 +- net-misc/chrony/chrony-4.0_pre2-r1.ebuild | 2 +- net-misc/chrony/chrony-9999.ebuild | 2 +- net-misc/chrony/files/chronyd.conf | 2 +- net-misc/chrony/files/chronyd.conf-r1 | 12 ++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
