[pkg-cinnamon] Bug#854099: cinnamon: Date and Time Settings --> Network Time fails (silently) without installing ntp
Thomas Nyberg
tomnyberg+debianreportbug at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 01:21:17 UTC 2017
Package: cinnamon
Version: 2.2.16-5
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
My clock was displaying the wrong time.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
First I set the Date and Time Settings to use Network Time, but it doesn't
work. It appears to work, but the next time you check the settings it shows up
as OFF again. Apparently it doesn't work unless the ntp package is installed. I
installed that and it worked.
I read online that some people thought adding ntp as a dependency was a bit
heavy for this, but as it stands the error causes this to fail silently (which
is very confusing). I think at minimum a box should appear when you try to
click Network Time ON, but I'm personally not sure how I could implement that.
I could certainly attach a patch adding ntp as a dependency, but I wasn't sure
if maybe the maintainers were purposefully leaving that off.
Thanks for your work for debian.
Cheers,
Thomas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages cinnamon depends on:
ii caribou 0.4.15-1
ii cinnamon-common 2.2.16-5
ii cinnamon-control-center 2.2.11-4
ii cinnamon-desktop-data 2.2.3-3
ii cinnamon-screensaver 2.2.4-6
ii cinnamon-session 2.2.2-5
ii cinnamon-settings-daemon 2.2.4.repack-7+deb8u1
ii cjs 2.2.2-2
ii cups-pk-helper 0.2.5-2+b1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.22.0-1
ii gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 0.6.37-3+b1
ii gir1.2-caribou-1.0 0.4.15-1
ii gir1.2-clutter-1.0 1.20.0-1
ii gir1.2-cmenu-3.0 2.2.0-3
ii gir1.2-cogl-1.0 1.18.2-3
ii gir1.2-gconf-2.0 3.2.6-3
ii gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 3.6.0-1
ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.42.0-2.2
ii gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 3.14.0-2
ii gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 3.14.1-1
ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0 1.6.0-1
ii gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 2.4.9-1~deb8u1
ii gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0 2.2.6-4
ii gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 0.9.10.0-7
ii gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0 0.9.10.0-2
ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.36.8-3
ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-15~deb8u2
ii gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.48.0-1
ii gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 0.99.1-3.2
ii gir1.2-webkit-3.0 2.4.9-1~deb8u1
ii gkbd-capplet 3.6.0-1
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1
ii gnome-session-bin 3.14.0-2
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.14.2-3
ii gnome-themes-standard 3.14.2.2-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.14.1-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1
ii libcinnamon-menu-3-0 2.2.0-3
ii libcjs0 2.2.2-2
ii libclutter-1.0-0 1.20.0-1
ii libcogl-pango20 1.18.2-3
ii libcogl-path20 1.18.2-3
ii libcogl20 1.18.2-3
ii libcroco3 0.6.8-3+b1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.42.0-2.2
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 10.3.2-1+deb8u1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.4.4-2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii libjs-jquery 1.7.2+dfsg-3.2
ii libmozjs185-1.0 1.8.5-1.0.0+dfsg-4.3
ii libmuffin0 2.2.6-4
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 5.0-13
ii libpulse0 5.0-13
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u4
ii mesa-utils 8.2.0-1
ii multiarch-support 2.19-18+deb8u6
ii nemo 2.2.4-2
ii network-manager-gnome 0.9.10.0-2
ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2
ii python-dbus 1.2.0-2+b3
ii python-gconf 2.28.1+dfsg-1.1
ii python-gi-cairo 3.14.0-1
ii python-imaging 2.6.1-2+deb8u3
ii python-lxml 3.4.0-1
ii python-pam 0.4.2-13.1
ii python-pexpect 3.2-1
ii python-pyinotify 0.9.4-1
pn python:any <none>
Versions of packages cinnamon recommends:
ii cinnamon-l10n 2.2.4-1
ii gksu 2.0.2-9
ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.14.1-1+deb8u1thomas-autohide-off1
Versions of packages cinnamon suggests:
pn python-opencv <none>
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