OpenSuSE Tumbleweed ntp problem after snapshot 20160905 will be fixed in snapshot 20160908

On some systems, after upgrading OpenSuSE Tumbleweed to 20160905 ntp stops working.

TL;DR

Pending the verification of snapshot 20160908 (not finished yet), if if you have updated to 20160905 or 20160907,, the bogus ntp version is, so you have to downgrade:

zypper in --oldpackage  http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/ntp-4.2.8p8-1.3.x86_64.rpm
systemctl restart ntpd.service

Or wait a few hours and install snapshot 20160908.

Re: ntp problem after snapshot 20160905

Originally Posted by wolfi323

The ntp update has been reverted [WayBack], the next snapshot will again only contain the previous working version.
That one is still in the repo btw, you can just downgrade it manually for now.

Just in case anyone is not sure how to do that:

Code:

#  zypper in --oldpackage  http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/ntp-4.2.8p8-1.3.x86_64.rpm

Source: TUMBLEWEED ntp problem after snapshot 20160905 [WayBack]

The 20160905 snapshot then brings you something like this:

revue:/etc # cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20160905"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="20160905"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20160905"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
revue:/etc # systemctl status ntpd.service
● ntpd.service - NTP Server Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/ntpd.service.d
           └─50-insserv.conf-$time.conf
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Thu 2016-09-08 16:08:14 CEST; 17h ago
     Docs: man:ntpd(1)
Main PID: 1758 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Sep 08 16:08:13 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Sep 08 16:08:13 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Failed with result 'resources'.
Sep 08 16:08:14 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Sep 08 16:08:14 revue systemd[1]: Stopped NTP Server Daemon.
Sep 08 16:08:14 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 08 16:08:14 revue systemd[1]: Failed to start NTP Server Daemon.
Sep 08 16:08:14 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Sep 08 16:08:14 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Failed with result 'start-limit'.

The snapshot 20160908 fixes it, but verification has not finished yet, so a zypper dist-upgrade will give you snapshot 20160907 which still has the bogus ntp, so you have to downgrade ntp:

revue:/etc # cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# VERSION="20160907"
ID=opensuse
ID_LIKE="suse"
VERSION_ID="20160907"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:tumbleweed:20160907"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://www.opensuse.org/"
revue:/etc # systemctl status ntpd.service
● ntpd.service - NTP Server Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/ntpd.service.d
           └─50-insserv.conf-$time.conf
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2016-09-09 10:14:55 CEST; 1min 8s ago
     Docs: man:ntpd(1)
  Process: 2841 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/start-ntpd start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Sep 09 10:14:54 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Sep 09 10:14:54 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Failed with result 'resources'.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: Stopped NTP Server Daemon.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: Failed to start NTP Server Daemon.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Failed with result 'start-limit'.
revue:/etc # zypper in --oldpackage  http://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/x86_64/ntp-4.2.8p8-1.3.x86_64.rpm
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following package is going to be downgraded:
  ntp
1 package to downgrade.
Overall download size: 763.6 KiB. Already cached: 0 B. No additional space will be used or freed after the operation.
Continue? [y/n/? shows all options] (y):
Retrieving package ntp-4.2.8p8-1.3.x86_64                                                                                  (1/1), 763.6 KiB (  2.3 MiB unpacked)
Checking for file conflicts: .............................................................................................................................[done]
(1/1) Installing: ntp-4.2.8p8-1.3.x86_64 .................................................................................................................[done]
Additional rpm output:
Updating /etc/sysconfig/ntp ...
revue:/etc # systemctl status ntpd.service
● ntpd.service - NTP Server Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/ntpd.service.d
           └─50-insserv.conf-$time.conf
   Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Fri 2016-09-09 10:14:55 CEST; 5min ago
     Docs: man:ntpd(1)
Sep 09 10:14:54 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Sep 09 10:14:54 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Failed with result 'resources'.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: Stopped NTP Server Daemon.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: Failed to start NTP Server Daemon.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Sep 09 10:14:55 revue systemd[1]: ntpd.service: Failed with result 'start-limit'.
revue:/etc # systemctl restart ntpd.service
revue:/etc # systemctl status ntpd.service
● ntpd.service - NTP Server Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/ntpd.service.d
           └─50-insserv.conf-$time.conf
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2016-09-09 10:20:44 CEST; 1s ago
     Docs: man:ntpd(1)
  Process: 4903 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/start-ntpd start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 4915 (ntpd)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 512)
   CGroup: /system.slice/ntpd.service
           ├─4915 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntp/ntpd.pid -g -u ntp:ntp -i /var/lib/ntp -c /etc/ntp.conf
           └─4916 ntpd: asynchronous dns resolver
Sep 09 10:20:44 revue systemd[1]: Starting NTP Server Daemon...
Sep 09 10:20:44 revue ntpd[4914]: ntpd 4.2.8p8@1.3265-o Sat Aug 13 17:26:43 UTC 2016 (1): Starting
Sep 09 10:20:44 revue ntpd[4914]: Command line: /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntp/ntpd.pid -g -u ntp:ntp -i /var/lib/ntp -c /etc/ntp.conf
Sep 09 10:20:44 revue ntpd[4915]: proto: precision = 0.093 usec (-23)
Sep 09 10:20:44 revue ntpd[4915]: switching logging to file /var/log/ntp
Sep 09 10:20:44 revue systemd[1]: Started NTP Server Daemon.
Sep 09 10:20:44 revue start-ntpd[4903]: Starting network time protocol daemon (NTPD)

–jeroen