[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#417377: openntpd: fails to install when the servers are unreachable

[Kurt Roeckx]

Version: 1:4.2.4p8+dfsg-1

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:16:24AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> retitle 417377 ntpd doesn't exit immediately when removing the package
> reassign 417377 ntp
> thanks
> 
> Le mardi 03 avril 2007 à 20:22 +0200, Kurt Roeckx a écrit :
> > This looks like somehow start-stop-daemon thinks that daemon was already
> > running.  I can't see any other way you should get this error.  It's
> > also the behaviour I get when testing it.
> 
> Thanks for the hint, I found what went wrong. Before installing
> openntpd, I had mistakenly installed ntp instead and had to purge it.
> However it seems that ntpd doesn't exit immediately when the package is
> purged; it takes about one minute, if not more, before the process
> disappears.

I can't reproduce this anymore with a current version of ntp,
so I'm closing this.


Kurt