[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#385334: ntpd_initres[5000]: ntpd returns a permission denied error!: automatic restart?

[Olaf van der Spek]

Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.2+dfsg.2-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

It seems my NTP daemon stopped working. Syslog was filled with lines "ntpd_initres[5062]: ntpd returns a permission denied error!"
Someone suggested this might be due to an unreachable timeserver in a pool. I'm using the default pools.
A restart 'fixed' the issue, NTP is running again.
But I think NTP should detect this and try another server in the pool itself (if that was really the problem).

Greetings,

Olaf

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Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.97       Add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                  5.1-7      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8b-2   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-14     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                       4.25       Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl-modules                  5.8.8-6.1  Core Perl modules
ii  psmisc                        22.3-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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