On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 11:29:47 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > You should be able to verify that the systemd-timesyncd package is > > removed. > > > > > In some older versions of Debian, systemd-timesyncd was part of the > > systemd package, and was always installed, even if you installed ntp > > or chrony. In these versions, the systemd unit file for timesync > > had checks for the existence of the binaries belonging to ntp, chrony > > and openntpd, and would prevent timesync from running if any of those > > was found. > > > > I don't remember which version did which thing. > > > > And of course, if you are not actually running Debian, then all bets are > > off. You're on your own with Armbian, Raspbian, etc. > > > and because the printer is arm stuff, its old armbian buster vintage. > mks@mkspi:/etc/init.d$ sudo apt purge systemd-timesyncd > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package 'systemd-timesyncd' is not installed, so not removed > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. > mks@mkspi:/etc/init.d$ > yet timedatectl is still there and shows: > mks@mkspi:/etc/init.d$ timedatectl > Local time: Thu 2024-03-07 11:15:53 EST > Universal time: Thu 2024-03-07 16:15:53 UTC > RTC time: Thu 2024-03-07 11:04:39 > Time zone: America/New_York (EST, -0500) > System clock synchronized: no > NTP service: inactive > RTC in local TZ: no > mks@mkspi:/etc/init.d$ > And the local time shown above is correct to the second. Debian's buster's systemd (241) has timesyncd built-in, so you may find that ls -l /lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd still finds it. The output from timedatectl is worrying. I would monitor chrony and check its logs to see if it it's doing anything. After all, you had ntpsec running until a "moment" ago, so you'd hardly expect the clock to be wrong by now. I tried installing chrony in 2017 (jessie), and it appeared unable to slew the clock five seconds in two days of interrupted running. Cheers, David.
