systemd never starts ntpd.service even though it is enabled

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/24/14 09:57, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> For some reason, ntpd.service never starts when one of my laptop boots.
>
> systemctl status ntpd.service says:
>
> ntpd.service - Network Time Service
>   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled)
>   Active: inactive (dead)
>
> It's enabled. It should start, or at least attempt to start and fail for some reason. It doesn't even start. After the laptop finishes booting, I can manually execute systemctl start ntpd.service, and ntpd comes up just fine.
>
> journalctl /usr/sbin/ntpd doesn't report anything, except when I manually start ntpd after boot.
>
> ntpd.service is unmodified, and identical to my other laptop, and all my servers, all of which have no issues starting ntpd during boot.
>
> Stumped on this one.
>

This will happen if you have both ntpd.service and chronyd.service enabled.


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