Bug 1341817

Summary: timedatectl: Failed to query server: Input/output error
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Juan Orti <jorti>
Component: timedatexAssignee: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 23CC: johannbg, jsynacek, lnykryn, mlichvar, msekleta, muadda, ssahani, s, systemd-maint, zbyszek
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strace -f timedatectl none

Description Juan Orti 2016-06-01 19:44:34 UTC 
Description of problem:

# LANG=C timedatectl 
Failed to query server: Input/output error


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
systemd-222-14.fc23.x86_64


Additional info:
It worked before.
Comment 1 Juan Orti 2016-06-01 19:48:08 UTC 
Created attachment 1163775 [details]
strace -f timedatectl
Comment 2 Juan Orti 2016-06-06 19:40:37 UTC 
Looks like a there is a clashing BusName=org.freedesktop.timedate1 in /usr/lib/systemd/system/timedatex.service and /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timedated.service

How do I fix this?
Comment 3 Jan Synacek 2016-06-14 07:29:31 UTC 
(In reply to Juan Orti from comment #2)
> How do I fix this?

# systemctl mask systemd-timedated
# systemctl stop systemd-timedated


In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187072, timedatex.service was enabled in by default. timedatex.service should include Conflicts=systemd-timedated.
Comment 4 Juan Orti 2016-06-14 07:42:23 UTC 
Ok, masking that unit fixes the problem. Thank you.
Comment 5 Miroslav Lichvar 2016-06-14 07:51:43 UTC 
The timedatex package includes a symlink which masks systemd-timedated by default. Was the symlink removed? Maybe something related to presets?
Comment 6 Juan Orti 2016-06-14 08:06:00 UTC 
This problem happened after I did a failed dnf upgrade to f24 which ended with many duplicate packages from f23 and f24. As I did a btrfs rollback of the root filesystem I thought everything was ok, but maybe I messed up things playing with the dnf command.
Comment 7 Jan Synacek 2016-06-14 10:13:48 UTC 
I've just verified that after installing F23, fully updating it and updating to F24 still leaves systemd-timedated masked.