I am seeing this when I first start the laptop.
I can start ntp manually but when I restart it isn’t running . I have even enabled the service.
I must be doing something wrong. Seeking help.
[demo@archusb ~]$ timedatectl
Failed to query server: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
[demo@archusb ~]$ timedatectl
Failed to query server: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
[demo@archusb ~]$ timedatectl
Local time: Sat 2023-06-03 13:11:16 EDT
Universal time: Sat 2023-06-03 17:11:16 UTC
RTC time: Sat 2023-06-03 17:11:16
Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: no
NTP service: inactive
RTC in local TZ: no
sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-timesyncd.service
[nx-74205:/dev/pts/3][/home/aragorn]
[aragorn] > timedatectl
Local time: Sat 2023-06-03 19:53:04 CEST
Universal time: Sat 2023-06-03 17:53:04 UTC
RTC time: Sat 2023-06-03 17:53:04
Time zone: Europe/Brussels (CEST, +0200)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no
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demo@archusb ~]$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-timesyncd.service
[sudo] password for demo:
[demo@archusb ~]$ timedatectl
Local time: Sat 2023-06-03 13:58:07 EDT
Universal time: Sat 2023-06-03 17:58:07 UTC
RTC time: Sat 2023-06-03 17:58:07
Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: yes
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no
I will run it again after reboot.
Same issue after reboot.
demo@archusb ~]$ timedatectl
Failed to query server: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
[demo@archusb ~]$ timedatectl
Failed to query server: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.timedate1': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)
[demo@archusb ~]$ timedatectl
Local time: Sat 2023-06-03 14:01:52 EDT
Universal time: Sat 2023-06-03 18:01:52 UTC
RTC time: Sat 2023-06-03 18:01:52
Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: no
NTP service: inactive
RTC in local TZ: no
What does systemd-timedated.service look like?
systemctl status systemd-timedated.service
[demo@archusb ~]$ systemctl status systemd-timedated.service
○ systemd-timedated.service - Time & Date Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timedated.service; static)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:systemd-timedated.service(8)
man:localtime(5)
man:org.freedesktop.timedate1(5)
Jun 03 14:00:32 archusb systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...
Jun 03 14:01:52 archusb systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.
Jun 03 14:02:22 archusb systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
How it should look:
systemctl status systemd-timedated.service
○ systemd-timedated.service - Time & Date Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timedated.service; static)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:systemd-timedated.service(8)
man:localtime(5)
man:org.freedesktop.timedate1(5)
BUT
systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-06-03 07:28:18 CEST; 13h ago
Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
Main PID: 1165 (systemd-timesyn)
Status: "Contacted time server 217.91.44.17:123 (2.manjaro.pool.ntp.org)."
Tasks: 2 (limit: 57680)
Memory: 2.4M
CPU: 161ms
CGroup: /system.slice/systemd-timesyncd.service
└─1165 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd
Jun 03 07:28:18 manjaro18 systemd[1]: Starting Network Time Synchronization...
Jun 03 07:28:18 manjaro18 systemd[1]: Started Network Time Synchronization.
Jun 03 07:28:48 manjaro18 systemd-timesyncd[1165]: Contacted time server 217.91.44.17:123 (2.manjaro.pool.ntp.org).
Jun 03 07:28:48 manjaro18 systemd-timesyncd[1165]: Initial clock synchronization to Sat 2023-06-03 07:28:48.751087 CEST.
I tried starting it and enabling it. But obviously I don’t know what I am doing:
[demo@archusb ~]$ systemctl start systemd-timedated.service
[demo@archusb ~]$ systemctl enable systemd-timedated.service
The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, Also=,
Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for template
units). This means they are not meant to be enabled or disabled using systemctl.
Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
• A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's
.wants/ or .requires/ directory.
• A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
a requirement dependency on it.
• A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
• In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some
instance name specified.
[demo@archusb ~]$
[demo@archusb ~]$
[demo@archusb ~]$ systemctl status systemd-timedated.service
○ systemd-timedated.service - Time & Date Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timedated.service; static)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:systemd-timedated.service(8)
man:localtime(5)
man:org.freedesktop.timedate1(5)
Jun 03 14:00:32 archusb systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...
Jun 03 14:01:52 archusb systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.
Jun 03 14:02:22 archusb systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 03 14:34:03 archusb systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...
Jun 03 14:34:03 archusb systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.
Jun 03 14:34:33 archusb systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 03 14:55:28 archusb systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...
Jun 03 14:55:28 archusb systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.
Jun 03 14:55:58 archusb systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
[demo@archusb ~]$ systemctl status systemd-timedated.service
○ systemd-timedated.service - Time & Date Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timedated.service; static)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:systemd-timedated.service(8)
man:localtime(5)
man:org.freedesktop.timedate1(5)
Jun 03 14:00:32 archusb systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...
Jun 03 14:01:52 archusb systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.
Jun 03 14:02:22 archusb systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 03 14:34:03 archusb systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...
Jun 03 14:34:03 archusb systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.
Jun 03 14:34:33 archusb systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jun 03 14:55:28 archusb systemd[1]: Starting Time & Date Service...
Jun 03 14:55:28 archusb systemd[1]: Started Time & Date Service.
Jun 03 14:55:58 archusb systemd[1]: systemd-timedated.service: Deactivated successfully.
That looks like a Live USB, and sice they aren’t persistent no changes will survive a reboot.
No not a live usb.
Sorry for the hostname. I will have to change it.
[demo@archusb ~]$ inxi -Fza
System:
Kernel: 6.4.0-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.1.1
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.4-x86_64
root=UUID=45ca132d-4a37-4dc3-afa0-be2e80d6a4a2 rw loglevel=3 audit=0
nvme_load=yes nvidia-drm.modeset=1 pcie_aspm=force
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.9 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP Spectre x360 Convertible 15-df1xxx
v: N/A serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 31
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 863F v: 54.24 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: AMI
v: F.28 date: 07/14/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 70.0 Wh (100.0%) condition: 70.0/70.0 Wh (100.0%)
volts: 13.0 min: 11.6 model: HP Primary type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: full cycles: 201
Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:2992.0001-battery model: ELAN2514:00 04F3:2992
serial: N/A charge: N/A status: N/A
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-10510U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Comet/Whiskey Lake note: check gen: core 10 level: v3 note: check
built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8E (142)
stepping: 0xC (12) microcode: 0xF6
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 tpc: 2 threads: 8 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB
L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3254 high: 3396 min/max: 400/4900 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 3385 2: 3242 3: 3101
4: 3334 5: 3099 6: 3167 7: 3309 8: 3396 bogomips: 36812
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: retbleed mitigation: Enhanced IBRS
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS, IBPB:
conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20
ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9b41
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX250] vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: N/A alternate: nouveau non-free: 530.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-05) arch: Pascal code: GP10x
process: TSMC 16nm built: 2016-21 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 4
bus-ID: 3b:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:1d13 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: Chicony HP Wide Vision FHD Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b67b
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.8 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 110 s-size: 886x498mm (34.88x19.61")
s-diag: 1016mm (40.01")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: AU Optronics 0x30eb built: 2017 res: 3840x2160
hz: 60 dpi: 284 gamma: 1.2 size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.5")
ratio: 16:9 modes: 3840x2160
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 23.1.1 renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2)
direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-cnl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl,
snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0401
API: ALSA v: k6.4.0-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.71 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: pipewire-media-session status: active 3: pipewire-alsa
type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli
Network:
Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:02f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 354.67 GiB (38.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 41.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 169 GiB size: 166.04 GiB (98.25%) used: 47.79 GiB (28.8%)
fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p8 maj-min: 259:8
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 499 MiB size: 498 MiB (99.80%)
used: 297.4 MiB (59.7%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-3: /home raw-size: 410.57 GiB size: 403.06 GiB (98.17%)
used: 306.59 GiB (76.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p7 maj-min: 259:7
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0 C pch: 50.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 269 Uptime: 1h 12m wakeups: 11409 Memory: available: 15.26 GiB
used: 13.44 GiB (88.1%) Init: systemd v: 253 default: graphical
tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 13.1.1 clang: 15.0.7 Packages: 1776
pm: pacman pkgs: 1769 libs: 432 tools: pamac,pikaur,yay pm: flatpak pkgs: 7
Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: alacritty inxi: 3.3.27
Ok I had a crazy idea .
I created a script to run this command
timedatectl set-ntp true
I am using KDE so I put it in the startup and shutdown
2 issues with this.
Everytime I login it asks me for my password.
It takes about 2 minutes for it to actually kick in.
There is some kind of delay for it to start.
Can you show output of
systemctl list-dependencies systemd-timedated.service --no-pager
demo@Manjaro ~]$ systemctl list-dependencies systemd-timedated.service --no-pager
systemd-timedated.service
● ├─-.mount
● ├─dbus.socket
● ├─system.slice
● ├─tmp.mount
● └─sysinit.target
● ├─dev-hugepages.mount
● ├─dev-mqueue.mount
○ ├─haveged.service
● ├─kmod-static-nodes.service
○ ├─ldconfig.service
● ├─lvm2-lvmpolld.socket
● ├─lvm2-monitor.service
● ├─proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount
● ├─sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
● ├─sys-kernel-config.mount
● ├─sys-kernel-debug.mount
● ├─sys-kernel-tracing.mount
● ├─systemd-ask-password-console.path
● ├─systemd-binfmt.service
○ ├─systemd-boot-random-seed.service
○ ├─systemd-firstboot.service
○ ├─systemd-hwdb-update.service
○ ├─systemd-journal-catalog-update.service
● ├─systemd-journal-flush.service
● ├─systemd-journald.service
○ ├─systemd-machine-id-commit.service
● ├─systemd-modules-load.service
○ ├─systemd-pcrmachine.service
○ ├─systemd-pcrphase-sysinit.service
○ ├─systemd-pcrphase.service
● ├─systemd-random-seed.service
○ ├─systemd-repart.service
● ├─systemd-resolved.service
● ├─systemd-sysctl.service
○ ├─systemd-sysusers.service
● ├─systemd-timesyncd.service
● ├─systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
● ├─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
● ├─systemd-udev-trigger.service
● ├─systemd-udevd.service
○ ├─systemd-update-done.service
● ├─systemd-update-utmp.service
● ├─cryptsetup.target
● ├─integritysetup.target
● ├─local-fs.target
● │ ├─-.mount
● │ ├─boot-efi.mount
● │ ├─home.mount
○ │ ├─systemd-fsck-root.service
● │ ├─systemd-remount-fs.service
● │ └─tmp.mount
● ├─swap.target
● └─veritysetup.target
Thanks, nothing weird there.
How about see what ntp is doing since boot …
journalctl -b 0 --unit systemd-timesyncd --no-pager
demo@Manjaro ~]$ journalctl -b 0 --unit systemd-timesyncd --no-pager
-- No entries --
Hmm something is screwy … here is my own system:
$ journalctl -b 0 --unit systemd-timesyncd --no-pager
May 19 22:49:24 delphin systemd[1]: Starting Network Time Synchronization...
May 19 22:49:24 delphin systemd[1]: Started Network Time Synchronization.
May 19 22:52:25 delphin systemd-timesyncd[598]: Contacted time server 139.180.160.82:123 (2.au.pool.ntp.org).
May 19 22:52:25 delphin systemd-timesyncd[598]: Initial clock synchronization to Fri 2023-05-19 22:52:25.209579 AEST.
I was getting timeout errors so I changed ntp server from manjaro.pool.ntp.org to au.pool.ntp.org
But yours doesn’t seem to be getting to that stage.
Can you show as above, but with --no-pager …
systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service --no-pager
[demo@Manjaro ~]$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd.service --no-pager
○ systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
So timesyncd is enabled, but its trigger conditions were not met.
Lets see what is in
systemctl list-dependencies systemd-timesyncd.service --no-pager
systemctl show systemd-timesyncd.service --no-pager
[demo@Manjaro ~]$ systemctl list-dependencies systemd-timesyncd.service --no-pager
systemd-timesyncd.service
● ├─-.mount
● ├─system.slice
● ├─tmp.mount
● └─time-set.target
[demo@Manjaro ~]$
[demo@Manjaro ~]$ systemctl show systemd-timesyncd.service --no-pager
Type=notify
ExitType=main
Restart=always
NotifyAccess=main
RestartUSec=0
TimeoutStartUSec=1min 30s
TimeoutStopUSec=10s
TimeoutAbortUSec=10s
TimeoutStartFailureMode=terminate
TimeoutStopFailureMode=terminate
RuntimeMaxUSec=infinity
RuntimeRandomizedExtraUSec=0
WatchdogUSec=infinity
WatchdogTimestampMonotonic=0
RootDirectoryStartOnly=no
RemainAfterExit=no
GuessMainPID=yes
MainPID=0
ControlPID=0
BusName=org.freedesktop.timesync1
FileDescriptorStoreMax=0
NFileDescriptorStore=0
StatusErrno=0
Result=success
ReloadResult=success
CleanResult=success
UID=[not set]
GID=[not set]
NRestarts=0
OOMPolicy=stop
ReloadSignal=1
ExecMainStartTimestampMonotonic=0
ExecMainExitTimestampMonotonic=0
ExecMainPID=0
ExecMainCode=0
ExecMainStatus=0
ExecStart={ path=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd ; argv[]=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd ; ignore_errors=no ; start_time=[n/a] ; stop_time=[n/a] ; pid=0 ; code=(null) ; status=0/0 }
ExecStartEx={ path=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd ; argv[]=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd ; flags=ambient ; start_time=[n/a] ; stop_time=[n/a] ; pid=0 ; code=(null) ; status=0/0 }
Slice=system.slice
ControlGroupId=0
MemoryCurrent=[not set]
MemoryAvailable=infinity
CPUUsageNSec=[not set]
TasksCurrent=[not set]
IPIngressBytes=[no data]
IPIngressPackets=[no data]
IPEgressBytes=[no data]
IPEgressPackets=[no data]
IOReadBytes=18446744073709551615
IOReadOperations=18446744073709551615
IOWriteBytes=18446744073709551615
IOWriteOperations=18446744073709551615
Delegate=no
CPUAccounting=yes
CPUWeight=[not set]
StartupCPUWeight=[not set]
CPUShares=[not set]
StartupCPUShares=[not set]
CPUQuotaPerSecUSec=infinity
CPUQuotaPeriodUSec=infinity
IOAccounting=no
IOWeight=[not set]
StartupIOWeight=[not set]
BlockIOAccounting=no
BlockIOWeight=[not set]
StartupBlockIOWeight=[not set]
MemoryAccounting=yes
DefaultMemoryLow=0
DefaultMemoryMin=0
MemoryMin=0
MemoryLow=0
MemoryHigh=infinity
MemoryMax=infinity
MemorySwapMax=infinity
MemoryZSwapMax=infinity
MemoryLimit=infinity
DevicePolicy=closed
TasksAccounting=yes
TasksMax=18726
IPAccounting=no
ManagedOOMSwap=auto
ManagedOOMMemoryPressure=auto
ManagedOOMMemoryPressureLimit=0
ManagedOOMPreference=none
Environment=SYSTEMD_NSS_RESOLVE_VALIDATE=0
UMask=0022
LimitCPU=infinity
LimitCPUSoft=infinity
LimitFSIZE=infinity
LimitFSIZESoft=infinity
LimitDATA=infinity
LimitDATASoft=infinity
LimitSTACK=infinity
LimitSTACKSoft=8388608
LimitCORE=infinity
LimitCORESoft=infinity
LimitRSS=infinity
LimitRSSSoft=infinity
LimitNOFILE=524288
LimitNOFILESoft=1024
LimitAS=infinity
LimitASSoft=infinity
LimitNPROC=62421
LimitNPROCSoft=62421
LimitMEMLOCK=8388608
LimitMEMLOCKSoft=8388608
LimitLOCKS=infinity
LimitLOCKSSoft=infinity
LimitSIGPENDING=62421
LimitSIGPENDINGSoft=62421
LimitMSGQUEUE=819200
LimitMSGQUEUESoft=819200
LimitNICE=0
LimitNICESoft=0
LimitRTPRIO=0
LimitRTPRIOSoft=0
LimitRTTIME=infinity
LimitRTTIMESoft=infinity
OOMScoreAdjust=0
CoredumpFilter=0x33
Nice=0
IOSchedulingClass=2
IOSchedulingPriority=4
CPUSchedulingPolicy=0
CPUSchedulingPriority=0
CPUAffinityFromNUMA=no
NUMAPolicy=n/a
TimerSlackNSec=50000
CPUSchedulingResetOnFork=no
NonBlocking=no
StandardInput=null
StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=inherit
TTYReset=no
TTYVHangup=no
TTYVTDisallocate=no
SyslogPriority=30
SyslogLevelPrefix=yes
SyslogLevel=6
SyslogFacility=3
LogLevelMax=-1
LogRateLimitIntervalUSec=0
LogRateLimitBurst=0
SecureBits=0
CapabilityBoundingSet=cap_sys_time
AmbientCapabilities=cap_sys_time
User=systemd-timesync
DynamicUser=no
RemoveIPC=no
PrivateTmp=yes
PrivateDevices=yes
ProtectClock=no
ProtectKernelTunables=yes
ProtectKernelModules=yes
ProtectKernelLogs=yes
ProtectControlGroups=yes
PrivateNetwork=no
PrivateUsers=no
PrivateMounts=no
PrivateIPC=no
ProtectHome=yes
ProtectSystem=strict
SameProcessGroup=no
UtmpMode=init
IgnoreSIGPIPE=yes
NoNewPrivileges=yes
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SystemCallArchitectures=native
SystemCallErrorNumber=1
LockPersonality=yes
RestrictAddressFamilies=AF_INET AF_INET6 AF_UNIX
RuntimeDirectoryPreserve=no
RuntimeDirectoryMode=0755
RuntimeDirectory=systemd/timesync
StateDirectoryMode=0755
StateDirectory=systemd/timesync
CacheDirectoryMode=0755
LogsDirectoryMode=0755
ConfigurationDirectoryMode=0755
TimeoutCleanUSec=infinity
MemoryDenyWriteExecute=yes
RestrictRealtime=yes
RestrictSUIDSGID=yes
RestrictNamespaces=yes
MountAPIVFS=no
KeyringMode=private
ProtectProc=invisible
ProcSubset=all
ProtectHostname=yes
KillMode=control-group
KillSignal=15
RestartKillSignal=15
FinalKillSignal=9
SendSIGKILL=yes
SendSIGHUP=no
WatchdogSignal=6
Id=systemd-timesyncd.service
Names=systemd-timesyncd.service dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service
Requires=system.slice -.mount
Wants=tmp.mount time-set.target
WantedBy=sysinit.target
Conflicts=shutdown.target
ConflictedBy=ntpd.service
Before=shutdown.target sysinit.target time-set.target
After=tmp.mount systemd-sysusers.service system.slice -.mount systemd-remount-fs.service systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service systemd-journald.socket
RequiresMountsFor=/run/systemd/timesync /var/lib/systemd/timesync /var/tmp
Documentation="man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)"
Description=Network Time Synchronization
LoadState=loaded
ActiveState=inactive
FreezerState=running
SubState=dead
FragmentPath=/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service
UnitFileState=enabled
UnitFilePreset=enabled
StateChangeTimestampMonotonic=0
InactiveExitTimestampMonotonic=0
ActiveEnterTimestampMonotonic=0
ActiveExitTimestampMonotonic=0
InactiveEnterTimestampMonotonic=0
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CanStop=yes
CanReload=no
CanIsolate=no
CanClean=runtime state
CanFreeze=yes
StopWhenUnneeded=no
RefuseManualStart=no
RefuseManualStop=no
AllowIsolate=no
DefaultDependencies=no
OnSuccessJobMode=fail
OnFailureJobMode=replace
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NeedDaemonReload=no
JobTimeoutUSec=infinity
JobRunningTimeoutUSec=infinity
JobTimeoutAction=none
ConditionResult=no
AssertResult=no
ConditionTimestampMonotonic=0
AssertTimestampMonotonic=0
Transient=no
Perpetual=no
StartLimitIntervalUSec=10s
StartLimitBurst=5
StartLimitAction=none
FailureAction=none
SuccessAction=none
CollectMode=inactive
Comparing to my setup, apart from minor config differences which I altered, main diffs are …
ConflictedBy=ntpd.service
Can you show output for
systemctl status ntpd.service --no-pager
(for comparison mine is here, and shows as disabled)
$ systemctl status ntpd.service --no-pager
○ ntpd.service - Network Time Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; disabled; preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
So likely your system (KDE?) differs here to mine (XFCE) in which ntp service to use.
Interesting, but unfortunately not showing root cause of a problem.
You could do similar diagnostics for ntp.service ntpd.service, but I won’t have a working one for comparison.
I’m also out of time, hopefully someone else can jump in.