[Bug 209387] Re: tzdata upgrade changes zone

What does "/etc/localtime" point to? If "/usr" is part of the root partition it should be a soft-link. If so, point it to "/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+8" If /usr is a separate partition then copy "/usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/GMT+8" over "/etc/localtime". If you change "/etc/timezone" to point to the

[Bug 114505] Re: ntp is being brought up before network is ready, causing ntp to not resolve any ip or host names and it appears ntp does not recover

@Eric, "I see the bug on feisty with a fast local network and local dhcp server." Did you move "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/ntp" to "/etc/dhcp3 /dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp" ? -- ntp is being brought up before network is ready, causing ntp to not resolve any ip or host names and it appears

[Bug 114505] Re: ntp is being brought up before network is ready, causing ntp to not resolve any ip or host names and it appears ntp does not recover

@feisty, If your DHCP server isn't providing NTP servers then DHCP should have nothing to do with NTP. "/etc/rcS.d/S40networking" should have the NIC's up and configured long before "/etc/rc[2345].d/S23ntp" tries to start NTP. Does you modem do 'lazy connects'? I'm wondering if the DNS queries

[Bug 114505] Re: ntp is being brought up before network is ready, causing ntp to not resolve any ip or host names and it appears ntp does not recover

"No Servers" means that the DHCP server didn't pass on any NTP servers and/or DHCP client doesn't care about them. Check your lease (/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases), does it mention "option ntp-servers ." ? Check your dhclient configuration file, does it ask for NTP servers (by default i

[Bug 114505] Re: ntp is being brought up before network is ready, causing ntp to not resolve any ip or host names and it appears ntp does not recover

@feisty_hot_lover I modified the ntp hook script to add some debugging (see attached). With the hook script in "-enter-" it was clear from the logs that the interface wasn't ready when NTP needed it. Could you try this version of the hook script and post the log files (/tmp/dhclient-script.*.deb

[Bug 74164] Re: Request ntp-servers by default

If you want to override the NTP servers provided by the DHCP server you could use prepend option ntp-servers .. or supersede option ntp-servers .. in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf This seems to be the Right Thing to do. If you know enough to want to override settings supplied by the DHCP ser

[Bug 114505] Re: ntp is being brought up before network is ready, causing ntp to not resolve any ip or host names and it appears ntp does not recover

I 'fixed' this by moving "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/ntp" to "/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp". Before the move a test PING of the new NTP servers failed with "ping: sendmsg: Network is unreachable". This makes sends because the -enter- hooks are run before the DHCP stage (in this ca