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Bug 590091 - NTP setup is not easy, and doesn't check whether NTP is working
NTP setup is not easy, and doesn't check whether NTP is working
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 533870
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: clock
2.27.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-29 00:32 UTC by Richard Neill
Modified: 2009-07-29 18:05 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.27/2.28


Description Richard Neill 2009-07-29 00:32:55 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
The gnome clock has a very helpful menu to enable sysnchronisation with an internet time server via NTP. Unfortunately, this is not very well explained. 

On a default install of Ubuntu Karmic, ntpd is not installed anyway. The panel applet doesn't know this, and doesn't check.

Ideally, it should check whether ntpd is installed and running (if not, either give a message, or prompt for password to apt-get), and then test whether ntp is working correctly (sudo ntpq -p).

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Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Philip Withnall 2009-07-29 17:21:14 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 533870 ***
Comment 2 Richard Neill 2009-07-29 18:05:28 UTC 
May be worth adding to the original bug that you can test whether ntp is currently enabled by doing ntpq -p.  Otherwise, the GUI gives misleading information.