Bug 1024568

Summary: chrony does not obtain DHCP NTP server address
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Darren <darren.armstrong>
Component: chronyAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Darren 2013-10-30 00:52:11 UTC
Description of problem:
I have upgraded from chrony-1.27-0.5.pre1.git1ca844.fc18.x86_64 to 1.29. The dhclient scripts runs via NetworkManager-dispatcher which in turn runs /etc/dhcp/dhclient.d/chrony.sh
This scripts normally creates both /var/lib/dhclient/chrony.added_servers and  chrony.servers.eth0.
In version 1.29 only chrony.servers.eth0 is created. This results in chronyc not displaying any sources.
There seems to be an issue with the chrony-helper scripts.
 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
chrony.x86_64                       1.29-1.fc18 

How reproducible:
Very


Steps to Reproduce:
1. reboot or systemctl restart NetworkManager
2. chronyc sources
3.

Actual results:
chronyc sources
210 Number of sources = 1
MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================


Expected results:
210 Number of sources = 1
MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
^* csu-virt.site04.exelis.sy     9  10   377   652   +334us[ +360us] +/-  448us


Additional info:

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2013-10-30 08:28:20 UTC
That's odd. There were no changes in the chrony dhclient script between 1.27-0.5.pre1.git1ca844.fc18 and 1.29-1.fc18.

Are there any servers in the chrony.servers.eth0 file? If there are, can you please try running "bash -x /usr/libexec/chrony-helper add-dhclient-servers" and attach the output here?

Comment 2 Darren 2013-10-31 22:22:49 UTC
es I think NM is working fine as if I rm -f /var/lib/dhclient/chrony.* and then systemctl restart NetworkManager I get cat /var/lib/dhclient/chrony.servers.eth0 with a valid address.
I need to check what openvpn actually does. I have selinux disabled and re-tested with the firewall disabled and it still does not work.
if I bash -x /usr/libexec/chrony-helper add-dhclient-servers
+ chronyc=/usr/bin/chronyc
+ dhclient_servers='/var/lib/dhclient/chrony.servers.*'
+ dhclient_added_servers=/var/lib/dhclient/chrony.added_servers
+ service_name=chronyd.service
+ case "$1" in
+ add_dhclient_servers
+ shopt -s nullglob
+ servers_files=($dhclient_servers)
+ shopt -u nullglob
+ ((  1  ))
++ cat /var/lib/dhclient/chrony.added_servers
++ read server serverargs
++ cat /var/lib/dhclient/chrony.servers.eth0
++ chrony_command 'add server 10.248.4.14 '
++ read server serverargs
+ added_servers=
+ update_dhclient_added_servers ''
++ sort -u
++ echo ''
+ new_servers=
++ cat /var/lib/dhclient/chrony.added_servers
+ old_servers=
+ '[' '' = '' ']'
+ return 0
+ exit 0
The added_servers= is empty whereas with 1.27 chrony the added_servers=10.248.4.14.


To add confusion if I upgrade from a working 1.27 to 1.29 and delete the dhclient files and restart NM and chrony the system works. Could chrony.keys have anyrhing to do with it?
Note the PC is a kickstart image from a cobbler server (time server) using the latest FC18 packages. So downgrading to 1.27 and then going back to 1.29 seems to fix whatever is going wrong.

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2013-11-01 08:27:15 UTC
It looks like "chrony_command 'add server 10.248.4.14 '" is failing. One of the reasons could be missing command key in the chrony.keys file. The key used to be generated by the chrony-helper script, but with 1.28 and later it's generated by chronyd itself on first start.

Can you please check that:
- chrony.conf contains the generatecommandkey directive
- there are no error messages in the system log from chronyd about permission problems, etc
- there is a key with id 1 in chrony.keys
- chronyc -a -m "add server 10.248.4.14" works

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Comment 6 Darren 2014-06-17 01:23:35 UTC
I am happy to ignore this as I have moved to fedora 20 and the issue does not exist