Re: [gentoo-user] Chrony-2.2 failing

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 19/11/2015 12:49, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> Chrony has been upgraded from 2.1.1 to 2.2 this week. The new version seems 
> to run just fine on this amd64 box, but on my x86 Atom box it fails to start 
> thus:
> 
> # /etc/init.d/chronyd start
>  * Starting chronyd ...
>  * start-stop-daemon: caught an interrupt
>  * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/chronyd died
>  * Failed to start chronyd                                     [ !! ]
>  * ERROR: chronyd failed to start
> 
> This is after adjusting the config files. Has anyone else stumbled into 
> this?
> 
> What's more, earlier versions had a decent man page and heavily commented 
> chronyd.conf, but now the chrony.conf man page has been cut to a bare 
> minimum and instead refers to a file chrony.txt "included in the 
> distribution". I cannot find any such file after running ebuild $(equery w 
> chrony) prepare.
> 


Doe sit fail consistently? IOW, now that everything else has settled
down, does "/etc/init.d/chrony start" still fail?

What about logs?
If none, you can inspect the start-stop-daemon line in the init file,
get the command line it launches chrony with, and see what that prints
to the console.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com