time-admin: Failure to keep clock synchronized box ticked, with NTP installed

Thanks for your bug. How do you notice that ntp fails? What do you mean by "ntpdate does not report NTP socket in use as it did before reboot"?

Before, when it was kept synchronized, if I ran ntpdate to synchronize it
would exist saying the NTP socket is in use. Now ntpdate succeeds in
synchronizing and the clock is often off by 5-20 seconds. When I go back
into the time admin the checkbox for keeping the clock synchronized is no
longer checked. This started when I rebooted last time. I believe it is due
to something I updated.

On 5/28/06, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your bug. How do you notice that ntp fails? What do you mean
> by "ntpdate does not report NTP socket in use as it did before reboot"?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> time-admin: Failure to keep clock synchronized box ticked, with NTP
> installed
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/44737
>

works fine for me on dapper, does anybody else has that issue?

Could you run "/usr/share/setup-tool-backends/scripts/time-conf --get" and copy that to a comment?

I'm using Breezy BTW.

(%:~)- /usr/share/setup-tool-backends/scripts/time-conf --get

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?>
<!DOCTYPE time []>

<time>

  <local_time>
    <hour>3</hour>
    <minute>36</minute>
    <month>6</month>
    <monthday>2</monthday>
    <second>0</second>
    <year>2006</year>
  </local_time>

  <sync active='no'>
    <server>ca.pool.ntp.org</server>
  </sync>

  <ntpinstalled>1</ntpinstalled>
  <timezone>America/Toronto</timezone>

</time>

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On 6/1/06, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> works fine for me on dapper, does anybody else has that issue?
>
> Could you run "/usr/share/setup-tool-backends/scripts/time-conf --get"
> and copy that to a comment?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
> Severity: Normal => Minor
>
> --
> time-admin: Failure to keep clock synchronized box ticked, with NTP
> installed
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/44737
>

according to that log the sync option is not activated, are you sure you checked the box for it?

Many times.

On 6/2/06, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> according to that log the sync option is not activated, are you sure you
> checked the box for it?
>
> --
> time-admin: Failure to keep clock synchronized box ticked, with NTP
> installed
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/44737
>

I've upgraded (via 'apt-get dist-upgrade') to dapper, and it still does it.

marking as unconfirmed since the questions got a reply, the desktop team is really busy and will not likely look at that issue soon but if somebody getting it wants to track it or bring it upstream he's welcome

I've got the same problem on my home dapper system. I've checked the sync box many times but on most days I find that my system time is wrong and ntp is not running and the sync check box is not checked.

This computer is an old PII 400 MHz machine, the on board motherboard battery is dead so it loses the correct time and any non-default bios settings every time it is turned off.

Fixed now.

I think an upgrade did it.

Thanks for following up. Closing the bug.