https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707524
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707524#c10
--- Comment #10 from Robert Davies 2011-07-22 17:43:10 UTC ---
If NTP cannot satisfy $time without boot.clock, then it is pointless having
+xntpd in /etc/insserv.conf; it makes NO sense to do that.
Furthermore, as we know the system time must be set on boot somehow, all the
dependencies on $time, become moot without optional methods of fulfilling
$time.
Either boot.clock is optional, in which case NTP should provide something that
satisfies $time, or it isn't; in which case the dependencies are complexity for
no benefit. Just assume the system time is set from hwclock.
May be 2 "weak requests" give $time the intended meaning either boot.clock or
xntpd.
$time +boot.clock +xntpd
This from end user point of view is a Bug!
I NEVER had to enable boot.clock before, perhaps install just did it, but in
12.1 M2 & M3 I have. I used the GUI to set up squid.conf, and almost certainly
would have checked box to start server, so probably that's failing silently.
+xntpd being able to satisfy $time, but not to cause an error if not defined
would make sense.
BTW Not really relevant now, given planned move to systemd, but innserv's error
messages "FATAL" are dramatic and mislead about the seriousness of the event,
making it seem broken. In fact it's jsut a boot dependancy issue. In 12.1 M2,
I was getting more confusing stuff from chkconfig, so with M3 on way, I just
gave up on it.
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