Hi, acct-user/ntp changed the HOME of the ntp user May 4 14:04:08 alarig usermod[3723]: change user 'ntp' home from '/var/lib/openntpd/chroot' to '/dev/null' But the service crashes if I restart it May 4 14:04:11 alarig ntpd[3752]: ntp: bad privsep dir /dev/null permissions: 20666 May 4 14:04:11 alarig ntpd[3751]: Lost child: child exited May 4 14:04:11 alarig ntpd[3751]: Terminating May 4 14:04:11 alarig ntpd[3754]: dispatch_imsg in main: pipe closed If I set it back to the old value, it works alarig ~ # rc-service ntpd status * status: crashed alarig ~ # usermod -d "/var/lib/openntpd/chroot" "ntp" alarig ~ # rc-service ntpd restart * Stopping OpenNTPD ... * start-stop-daemon: no matching processes found [ ok ] * Starting OpenNTPD ... [ ok ] alarig ~ # rc-service ntpd status * status: started It looks like https://bugs.gentoo.org/693050 but this bug was closed as resolved. Also, acct-user/openntpd wasn’t pulled by emerge during the upgrade. ~ % equery uses net-misc/ntp [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for net-misc/ntp-4.2.8_p14-r2: U I - - caps : Use Linux capabilities library to control privilege - - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Quality_Assurance/Backtraces + + ipv6 : Add support for IP version 6 - - libressl : Use dev-libs/libressl instead of dev-libs/openssl when applicable (see also the ssl useflag) + + openntpd : Allow ntp to be installed alongside openntpd - - parse-clocks : Add support for PARSE clocks + + readline : Enable support for libreadline, a GNU line-editing library that almost everyone wants - - samba : Provide support for Samba's signing daemon (needed for Active Directory domain controllers) - - snmp : Add support for the Simple Network Management Protocol if available + + ssl : Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security) + + threads : Add threads support for various packages. Usually pthreads + + vim-syntax : Pulls in related vim syntax scripts - - zeroconf : Support for DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD) ~ % equery uses net-misc/openntpd [ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation] [ : I - package is installed with flag ] [ Colors : set, unset ] * Found these USE flags for net-misc/openntpd-6.0_p1: U I - - libressl : Enable HTTPS TLS time constraint support using dev-libs/libressl
You need to upgrade to net-misc/openntpd-6.2_p3-r1, or remove the acct-user/ntp package and reset the home directory. Also see bug 720674.
It works with net-misc/openntpd-6.2_p3-r1, thanks!
