Bug 21890

Summary:	Automatic time synchronization fails when using drakconf
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Jack M <jackal.j>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, marja11
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17091
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	drakxtools	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Jack M 2017-10-18 02:28:11 CEST

Description of problem:

While synchronizing the time through drakconf (mageia control center), selecting the "enable network time protocol" (Mageia Control Center > System > Manage Date and Time) seems to have no effect other than immediately synchronizing the time. This has to be done every single time, it doesn't happen automatically when the machine is booted. I am not sure this is by design since this used to happen automatically in mga5.

This happens on both cauldron and on mageia 6(not upgraded, fresh install).
Cauldron is lxde, mga6 is plasma.

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:

1) drakconf
2) System > Manage Data and Time
3) Set 'Enable Network Time Protocol'
4) Redo the above, the option 'Enable Network Time Protocol' has to be enabled again.

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-10-18 22:51:29 CEST

See also bug 17091

CC: (none) => marja11
Source RPM: (none) => drakxtools
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17091
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools

Comment 2 Nicolas Lécureuil 2017-10-28 21:47:52 CEST

i can reproduce this.

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 3 Jack M 2017-10-30 06:53:51 CET

So, I am not sure if there were any changes made, but the time is now synchronising automatically upon boot, but, there is still no tick mark against Enable NTP option in MCC. Would be nice if we knew if it was enabled or disabled.