Bug 1550259
Summary: | timedatectl controls installed NTP service instead of systemd-timesyncd - docs are out of sync | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins> |
Component: | systemd | Assignee: | systemd-maint |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | lnykryn, mlichvar, msekleta, s, systemd-maint, zbyszek |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature, Reopened |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
OS: | Unspecified | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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Last Closed: | 2019-10-24 12:49:37 UTC | Type: | Bug |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 1735584 | ||
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Description
Alan Jenkins
2018-02-28 21:00:49 UTC
It seems the output of timedatectl changed not that long ago with this commit: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/3ec530a1890925efe347f739917dd4078c1b1942 Let's ask the Fedora systemd maintainers if this is something what could be fixed downstream or upstream. To me it looks like a bug that timedatectl assumes the service providing the org.freedesktop.timedate1 interface is the one shipped with systemd. Would it be possible to change the "systemd-timesyncd.service active" string with something more generic like "Time synchronization service active"? The man page of timedatectl could explain that it communicates over D-Bus, usually with the systemd-timedated service, which controls systemd-timesyncd, but it does not have to be always the case. If this does not work, timedatex could probably provide a replacement for timedatectl in addition to systemd-timedated, but some changes in the systemd packaging would be needed to avoid the file conflicts in /usr/bin and /usr/share/man/man1 as suggested in the comment #0. Frankly, I'd prefer to go back, and make timedatectl again manage multiple ntp daemons (in the sense of enabling/disabling one of the installed implementations). The approach that timedatectl manages just systemd-timesyncd has been mostly a source of bugs and a constant annoyance to users. I haven't looked at the details, so I don't have an opinion whether it makes sense to bring ntp-units.d back [1], or some different mechanism should be implemented and what role timedatex should play. [1] commit removing ntp-units.d: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/b72ddf0f4f This message is a reminder that Fedora 27 is nearing its end of life. On 2018-Nov-30 Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 27. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '27'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 27 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 27 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2018-11-30. Fedora 27 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. This got solved actually as suggested above and the changes in behaviour were reverted. If the output is still confusing in any way, please open a new bug. |