| Summary: | Unable to contact time server when the ntp daemon is running. | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | ljfnord |
| Component: | kcm_clock | Assignee: | Paul Campbell <paul> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | adaptee, alessandro.ufms, ali.sherif10, criguada, donchar, doug, flying-sheep, giacof, gideon, kde.org, kelytharun, leoni.massimiliano1, lueck, manutortosa, MurzNN, nortexoid, pavel_mendl, ruchir.brahmbhatt |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | reproducible, triaged |
| Version: | 4.9.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | http://commits.kde.org/plasma-desktop/b6ae01ca8ea776c97cc57836401ca9696e2529e8 | Version Fixed In: | |
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Description
ljfnord
2008-12-28 15:16:45 UTC
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 Same problem with Kubuntu 9.10, KDE 4.4.0. The bug still exists in KDE 4.4.1 on both Kubuntu and Arch Linux Confirmed arch linux 64 bit kde 4.4.2 Confirmed on Debian testing (Squeeze) KDE 4.4.5 *** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. *** 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. This is happening to me too. KDE 4.6.3 I disabled ntp daemon and it works. Check if you have ntpd running on the system. Ican confirm: Without ntp daemon-> works With ntp daemon -> error "Unable to contact time server: Public Time Server (pool.ntp.org)." 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..." 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 *** Bug 219035 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 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. 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. *** Bug 336873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 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 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? 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. 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 Related: Enabling "set date and time automatically" shall start ntpd.service https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444821 |