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Joe Inwap
Asked: 2019-08-18 03:55:21 +0800 CST

systemd-timesyncd.service won't start

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● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2019-08-17 04:32:34 PDT; 11min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
  Process: 4629 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)
 Main PID: 4629 (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)

It still says this after I created /var/lib/systemd/timesync/.

ntp time 18.04 systemd-timesyncd

1 Answers

  1. It's working now.

        # chmod 700 /var/lib/private
    # rm -r /var/lib/private/systemd
    # systemctl start systemd-timesyncd
    # timedatectl status
                      Local time: Wed 2019-08-28 17:55:15 PDT
                  Universal time: Thu 2019-08-29 00:55:15 UTC
                        RTC time: Thu 2019-08-29 00:55:15
                       Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
       System clock synchronized: yes
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
                 RTC in local TZ: no
    # ls -ld /var/lib/private/systemd/timesync
    drwxr-xr-x 2 systemd-timesync systemd-timesync 4096 Aug 28 17:51 timesync/
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