Bug 393674

Summary:	ntp: /etc/init.d/ntp start hangs if network is not available
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Tejun Heo <teheo>
Component:	Bootloader	Assignee:	Peter Varkoly <varkoly>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3plus
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Attachments:	ntp-start.log

Description Tejun Heo 2008-05-22 16:51:28 UTC

SL110 ntp boot script now unconditionally calls ntptimeset before start.  If the network is not up yet, this hangs the booting for quite some time.  Another problem is that this happens before the ntp script prints that ntp is starting so it's pretty difficult to tell what's going on.

Comment 1 Tejun Heo 2008-05-22 16:52:27 UTC

Created attachment 217584 [details]
ntp-start.log

set -x log of "/etc/init.d/ntp start".  The script hangs at the last line.

Comment 2 Peter Varkoly 2008-05-26 19:46:12 UTC

The problem is not the ntpd server startup script but the ifdow-Script of ntp:
/etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/50-ntp

This problem is fixed in #388980

I'll analize the problem with using ntptimeset instead of ntpdate to set the initial date. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 388980 ***