Ntpdate fails to start

[Tim]

On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 12:58 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> At booting, ntpdate fails to start, and also the following command
> fails:
>
> # /sbin/service ntpdate start
> ntpdate: Synchronizing with time server:                   [FAILED]
>
> The log messages are:
>
> Sep  7 12:50:50 localhost ntpdate[2908]: the NTP socket is in use,
> exiting
>
> Any ideas?

Do you use NetworkManager to bring your network up?  If so, it's not up
in time for NTP to do its trick, and will be sort of running
(freewheeling without synchronising to external servers) and preventing
ntpdate from being usable.

NB:  It's a busy week, here, replies may be a day or so late.

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