Apparently the issue is just that chrony is not starting up on boot: $ journalctl -r -u chrony | head -n 20 -- Logs begin at Thu 2018-05-31 12:51:22 WEST, end at Mon 2018-07-02 09:23:49 WEST. -- Jul 02 09:08:04 coulson chronyd[7131]: Selected source 194.8.30.16 Jul 02 09:06:58 coulson chronyd[7131]: Source 91.189.91.157 replaced with 2001:67c:1560:8003::c8 Jul 02 09:06:57 coulson chronyd[7131]: Selected source 91.189.94.4 Jul 02 09:06:49 coulson systemd[1]: Started chrony, an NTP client/server. Jul 02 09:06:49 coulson chronyd[7131]: Frequency 21.345 +/- 0.131 ppm read from /var/lib/chrony/chrony.drift Jul 02 09:06:49 coulson chronyd[7131]: chronyd version 3.2 starting (+CMDMON +NTP +REFCLOCK +RTC +PRIVDROP +SCFILTER +SECHASH +SIGND +ASYNCDNS +IPV6 -DEBUG) Jul 02 09:06:49 coulson systemd[1]: Starting chrony, an NTP client/server... -- Reboot -- Jun 29 16:01:41 coulson systemd[1]: Stopped chrony, an NTP client/server. Jun 29 16:01:41 coulson systemd[1]: Stopping chrony, an NTP client/server... Jun 29 16:01:41 coulson chronyd[14657]: chronyd exiting Jun 29 15:56:41 coulson chronyd[14657]: Source 195.22.17.7 online Jun 29 15:56:41 coulson chronyd[14657]: Source 88.157.128.22 online Jun 29 15:56:41 coulson chronyd[14657]: Source 80.172.224.24 online Jun 29 15:56:41 coulson chronyd[14657]: Source 91.189.89.198 online Jun 29 15:56:41 coulson chronyd[14657]: Source 194.8.30.16 online Jun 29 15:56:41 coulson chronyd[14657]: Source 2001:67c:1560:8003::c8 online Jun 29 15:56:41 coulson chronyd[14657]: Source 2001:67c:1560:8003::c7 online Jun 29 15:56:41 coulson chronyd[14657]: Source 91.189.89.199 online
even though it seems to be enabled: $ systemctl is-enabled chrony enabled -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1779621 Title: chrony exits unexpectedly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chrony/+bug/1779621/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
