178968 2008-12-28 15:16:45 +0000 Unable to contact time server when the ntp daemon is running. 2021-11-02 12:09:33 +0000 1 1 2 Applications systemsettings kcm_clock 4.9.3 unspecified Linux RESOLVED FIXED triaged NOR normal --- 1 ljfnord paul adaptee alessandro.ufms ali.sherif10 criguada donchar doug giacof gideon kde.bugs kde.org kelytharun leoni.massimiliano1 lueck manutortosa MurzNN nortexoid pavel_mendl ruchir.brahmbhatt http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/b6ae01ca8ea776c97cc57836401ca9696e2529e8 0 oldest_to_newest 688299 0 ljfnord 2008-12-28 15:16:45 +0000 Version: (using KDE 4.1.3) Compiler: gcc 4.3.2 OS: Linux Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package Attempting to enter systemsettings and setting the timezone leads to an error, "Unable to contact time server: Public Time Server (pool.ntp.org)." Running the following command... sudo /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kcmdatetimehelper 'ntp' '5' 'Public Time Server (pool.ntp.org)' 'asia.pool.ntp.org' 'europe.pool.ntp.org' 'north-america.pool.ntp.org' 'oceania.pool.ntp.org' 'enabled' 'tz' 'America/Chicago' ...results in errors like this... rdate: connect to address 67.159.26.162: Connection refused rdate: connect to address 65.254.214.170: Connection refused rdate: connect to address 64.247.17.255: Connection refused rdate: connect to address 64.247.17.248: Connection refused rdate: timed out connecting to 67.59.168.233 after 10 seconds. OpenNTPD is installed and running properly under ArchLinux. 736267 1 MurzNN 2009-03-29 11:44:27 +0000 Confirm on Kubuntu 8.10 with KDE 4.2.1. When I try to turn on "Set date and time automatically" and press "Apply", I see three error windows: 1. Unable to contact time server: Public Time Server (pool.ntp.org). 2. Can not set date. 3. Error setting new time zone. On coomand line as user: $ ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Mar 13:42:58 ntpdate[18129]: bind() fails: Permission denied as root: ~$ kdesudo ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Mar 13:44:09 ntpdate[18227]: adjust time server 83.222.4.154 offset 0.000025 sec 927337 2 doug 2010-03-02 21:04:49 +0000 Same problem with Kubuntu 9.10, KDE 4.4.0. 941401 3 kelytharun 2010-03-28 09:50:28 +0000 The bug still exists in KDE 4.4.1 on both Kubuntu and Arch Linux 946838 4 kde.org 2010-04-08 14:17:12 +0000 Confirmed arch linux 64 bit kde 4.4.2 1090117 5 pavel_mendl 2011-02-21 21:21:23 +0000 Confirmed on Debian testing (Squeeze) KDE 4.4.5 1090119 6 pavel_mendl 2011-02-21 21:24:34 +0000 *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** 1107240 7 lueck 2011-04-12 17:42:07 +0000 Kubuntu 10.10: $ KDE_LANG=en_US systemsettings --version Qt: 4.7.0 KDE Development Platform: 4.6.2 (4.6.2) System Settings: 1.0 Works for me. When I turn on "Set date and time automatically" and press "Apply" an authentication dialog pops up asking for my password and the setting is accepted. 1116937 8 alessandro.ufms 2011-05-09 05:38:21 +0000 This is happening to me too. KDE 4.6.3 1121048 9 alessandro.ufms 2011-05-19 19:06:20 +0000 I disabled ntp daemon and it works. Check if you have ntpd running on the system. 1121143 10 lueck 2011-05-20 08:03:26 +0000 Ican confirm: Without ntp daemon-> works With ntp daemon -> error "Unable to contact time server: Public Time Server (pool.ntp.org)." 1141511 11 manutortosa 2011-07-13 21:13:25 +0000 Same problem here using Chakra GNU/Linux with both kde 4.6.5 and 4.7rc2, no errors running: sudo /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kcmdatetimehelper 'ntp' '5' 'Public Time Server (pool.ntp.org)' 'asia.pool.ntp.org' 'europe.pool.ntp.org' 'north-america.pool.ntp.org' 'oceania.pool.ntp.org' 'enabled' 'tz' 'America/Chicago' but systemsettings shoots a error "Unable to contact time server: Public Time Server..." 1321014 12 adaptee 2012-12-04 12:03:47 +0000 Conditions and steps for reproducing. 1. Install the full ntp suite to have both ntpd and ntpdate binaries installed. 2. start the ntpd daemon 3. run "kcmshell4 clock", enable the "Set date the time automatically" option, and change the timezone, then click apply 4. error 1321108 13 adaptee 2012-12-04 20:56:31 +0000 *** Bug 219035 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 1330151 14 leoni.massimiliano1 2013-01-09 09:08:23 +0000 Still present on Archlinux with KDE 4.9.5. Disabling ntpd auto-start on boot [~$ systemctl disable ntpd.service] seems to be a workaround though. 1433140 15 kde.bugs 2014-02-28 12:40:59 +0000 i also don’t see the setting doing anything. my hwclock was wrong by 5 minutes, and KDE didn’t set set the correct time within days. (likely not ever). it will only set the time when i manually change the time server and click “apply” (which forces it to sync), but even then it doesn’t set the hwclock, so the clock will be 5 minutes wrong after rebooting. KDE’s time management is plain broken for me (Archlinux). So the only sane thing is to enable ntp and disable KDE’s time syncing. 1458539 16 cfeck 2014-06-29 20:18:20 +0000 *** Bug 336873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 1470839 17 giacof 2014-09-12 11:25:58 +0000 I confirm this bug on Kubuntu 14.04: Application: kcmshell4 (4.13.3) KDE Platform Version: 4.13.3 Qt Version: 4.8.6 Operating System: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64 Distribution: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS On first attempt the application crashed, then I retried and got the error message reported by OP 1483917 18 nortexoid 2014-12-03 09:01:40 +0000 Still broken in KDE 4.14.1, Kubuntu 14.10, though I have been updating from previous versions so maybe a fresh install would fix it? Is there a modern-day fix/workaround for this? Is it still broken in Plasma 5/Frameworks 5? 1485331 19 cfeck 2014-12-12 20:32:15 +0000 Probably. We have no maintainer for kcm-clock. Also, with distributions switching to systemd, the complete clock setting stuff should be rewritten anyway. If you know someone who would be able to do it, please point them here. 1502590 20 kde 2015-02-27 19:02:38 +0000 Git commit b6ae01ca8ea776c97cc57836401ca9696e2529e8 by David Edmundson. Committed on 14/02/2015 at 13:50. Pushed by davidedmundson into branch 'master'. Add systemd support into the clock KCM as an optional dependency The current time setting helper is incredibly broken. It manually tries to run a range of NTP utilities, all of which are deprecated. We can just call timedated directly and cut out the middleman as it has uses polkit anyway. This is currently an optional dependency, and the original helper still exists. It makes the code messy, but we have users to support for now. Detection is done at runtime Related: bug 196316, bug 311286, bug 317784, bug 319072, bug 337012, bug 339582, bug 241817, bug 320456, bug 317999, bug 337659 REVIEW: 122400 M +5 -1 kcms/dateandtime/CMakeLists.txt M +22 -12 kcms/dateandtime/dateandtime.ui M +44 -30 kcms/dateandtime/dtime.cpp M +2 -1 kcms/dateandtime/dtime.h M +80 -7 kcms/dateandtime/main.cpp M +5 -1 kcms/dateandtime/main.h A +43 -0 kcms/dateandtime/timedated1.xml http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/b6ae01ca8ea776c97cc57836401ca9696e2529e8 2074197 21 es20490446e 2021-11-02 12:09:33 +0000 Related: Enabling "set date and time automatically" shall start ntpd.service https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444821