[Bug 1882505] Re: ubuntu_ltp_syscalls failed to run on Focal s390x, unable to restart systemd-timesyncd.service

[Po-Hsu Lin]

Hello Dimitri,

After a quick check it looks like this service is still in inactive
(dead) state even after a reboot.

ubuntu at kernel04:/lib/systemd$ sudo systemctl  status  systemd-timesyncd
● systemd-timesyncd.service
     Loaded: masked (Reason: Unit systemd-timesyncd.service is masked.)
     Active: inactive (dead)
ubuntu at kernel04:/lib/systemd$ file /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service
/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service: cannot open `/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service' (No such file or directory)

And there is no "systemd-timesyncd.service" file at where is should be.

So yeah it's not running, our testing tool did not check the state first
before trying to stop / start it.

$ sudo systemctl edit systemd-timesyncd
Cannot edit systemd-timesyncd.service: unit is masked.

Let me see if I can un-mask it.

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Title:
  ubuntu_ltp_syscalls failed to run on Focal s390x, unable to restart
  systemd-timesyncd.service

Status in ubuntu-kernel-tests:
  New
Status in systemd package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Issue found on 5.4.0-34.38 s390x LPAR / zVM

  We need to stop timesyncd for the following tests:
  ['leapsec01','stime01','settimeofday01','clock_settime01']

  But it looks like when we're trying to restart it:
     systemctl start systemd-timesyncd

  It will fail with:
    Failed to start systemd-timesyncd.service: Unit systemd-timesyncd.service is masked.

  
  This issue did not happen on 5.4.0-33.37, the ubuntu_ltp_syscalls test can finish with that kernel.

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