I have a relatively fresh installation of Fedora 37 with the KDE spin on my laptop. For some reason the network time syncing doesn’t work out of the box. I have added the following to the /etc/chrony.conf
in order to have at least one server:
pool 2.fedora.pool.ntp.org iburst
My system time keeps being off. When I restart chronyd, it will sync and set the time. But it doesn’t do that on its own.
● chronyd.service - NTP client/server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2023-03-22 21:26:29 CET; 47min left
Docs: man:chronyd(8)
man:chrony.conf(5)
Process: 330036 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/chronyd $OPTIONS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 330039 (chronyd)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 18731)
Memory: 1.1M
CPU: 51ms
CGroup: /system.slice/chronyd.service
└─330039 /usr/sbin/chronyd -F 2
Mär 22 21:26:29 mu-t14 chronyd[330039]: chronyd version 4.3 starting (+CMDMON +NTP +REFCLOCK +RTC +PRIVDROP +SCFILTER +SIGND +ASYNCDNS +NTS +SECHASH +IPV6 +DEBU>
Mär 22 21:26:29 mu-t14 chronyd[330039]: Frequency 0.748 +/- 0.263 ppm read from /var/lib/chrony/drift
Mär 22 21:26:29 mu-t14 chronyd[330039]: Using right/UTC timezone to obtain leap second data
Mär 22 21:26:29 mu-t14 chronyd[330039]: Loaded seccomp filter (level 2)
Mär 22 21:26:29 mu-t14 systemd[1]: Started chronyd.service - NTP client/server.
Mär 22 21:26:35 mu-t14 chronyd[330039]: Selected source fd00::3681:c4ff:fe18:b00f
Mär 22 21:26:35 mu-t14 chronyd[330039]: System clock wrong by -3027.602282 seconds
Mär 22 20:36:08 mu-t14 chronyd[330039]: System clock was stepped by -3027.602282 seconds
Mär 22 20:36:08 mu-t14 chronyd[330039]: System clock TAI offset set to 37 seconds
Mär 22 20:37:12 mu-t14 chronyd[330039]: Selected source 192.168.188.1
This is the full config:
❯ cat /etc/chrony.conf
# These servers were defined in the installation:
server _gateway iburst
server _gateway iburst
# Use public servers from the pool.ntp.org project.
# Please consider joining the pool (https://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html).
pool 2.fedora.pool.ntp.org iburst
# Use NTP servers from DHCP.
sourcedir /run/chrony-dhcp
# Record the rate at which the system clock gains/losses time.
driftfile /var/lib/chrony/drift
# Allow the system clock to be stepped in the first three updates
# if its offset is larger than 1 second.
makestep 1.0 3
# Enable kernel synchronization of the real-time clock (RTC).
rtcsync
# Enable hardware timestamping on all interfaces that support it.
#hwtimestamp *
# Increase the minimum number of selectable sources required to adjust
# the system clock.
#minsources 2
# Allow NTP client access from local network.
#allow 192.168.0.0/16
# Serve time even if not synchronized to a time source.
#local stratum 10
# Require authentication (nts or key option) for all NTP sources.
#authselectmode require
# Specify file containing keys for NTP authentication.
keyfile /etc/chrony.keys
# Save NTS keys and cookies.
ntsdumpdir /var/lib/chrony
# Insert/delete leap seconds by slewing instead of stepping.
#leapsecmode slew
# Get TAI-UTC offset and leap seconds from the system tz database.
leapsectz right/UTC
# Specify directory for log files.
logdir /var/log/chrony
# Select which information is logged.
#log measurements statistics tracking
It feels very weird that a fresh installation doesn’t have a working network time sync. What I can do to get this fixed?