systemd-timesyncd.service

brent

Today my time was wrong, and network manager shutdown.

When I took these steps (credited to @Girtablulu ):
sudo systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd.service sudo systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service sudo systemctl start systemd-timesyncd.service ---then I was healed.

Question: what would/could shut down systemd-timesyncd.service? And why?

thank you.
disclosure: moved computer from one room to the other like I always do when wife in a zoom meeting. just normal stuff. no mobo battery, no cmos jumping, nothing weird at all in fact...edit: typo

brent

linux-audit explains "One of the better examples is networks relying on the authentication protocol Kerberos. If your system time is not correct, you may not be able to authenticate. This is because granted tickets have a built-in protection against timing attacks. While you may not be an attacker, the system will refuse to work when it finds requests being from the past or future."

which I knew. Nothing nefarious here.
This site lists a set of daemon woes that could shut timesync down:
False tickers, stratum 13, 'unreliable sources', and 'time out of sync.'

Doesn't tell me much, though.
What shut down systemd-timesyncd.service?
It wasn't me or sudo I know that.

Do these things fall out of whack sometime? edit: spelled daemon wrong

brent

brent i couldn't find a clear answer about why timesync would shutdown.

So might as well SOLVED this. I give up. Seemed like an easy answer but my research king fu not working for this one.

Axios

brent Did you or do you use virtualbox?

SOLUSfiddler

brent
"research king fu" I very much like! 🤣

brent

Axios hey, thanks. no, no VM. I read sometimes this a vm thang though. on simple reboot there was a 6 hour difference wrecked internet access of course and blew up network manager. another reboot fixed N-M but time reset was stubborn til I used those commands.
don't think its sinister, just want peace of mind. trying to get finger on it. how do you shut down timesync and stop a system service with no sudo and no operator? been too busy to get to the bottom of it.

Axios

brent Hmm does kinda sound like that bug doesnt it if it blew up NM to but maybe not as bad tho?

brent

Axios smelled like ddos on our network. intermittent net, no net, no zoom connections. zoom outage map showed our whole town that day, partner's computer too but she kept her time. one of those weirdness hiccups that happen sometimes
edit-typo

brent

SOLUSfiddler a line I stole from the Lone Gunmen (Frohicke) from the X-Files...

i almost commented on a thread you were on but I didnt' want to get yelled at for offtopic. i stopped using grsyc recently when it claimed it did 1/2 second backup of /home. I got the impression it was that permissions thing you were describing about your daughter. It wouldn't abort it would say done after .5 second and I knew that was wrong because /home usually takes 10 minutes or more.
The only difference is most of my home was accessible (files and folders) and much of of /sytem not accessible like normal.

SOLUSfiddler

brent
Thanks for your reply!
So, what do you use now for backing up your data?

brent

SOLUSfiddler Praying to the universe😉

(auditioning backups in the repo soon is pushed to the top already-long TO DO list.)

SOLUSfiddler

brent
Man, there ain't anyone up there! 😊

brent

SOLUSfiddler