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ntpd segfaults at boot (caused by use of IPv6?)

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: 73873 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73873: ntpd segfaults at boot (caused by use of IPv6?)
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:00:53 +0900

Hi,

After adjusting my system time in UEFI, I've had the ntpd daemon
terminate with exit status 11, with the following message in
/var/log/messages:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Oct 19 08:44:17 localhost ntpd[1658]: Soliciting pool server 160.16.113.133
Oct 19 08:44:17 localhost ntpd[1658]: 160.16.113.133 local addr <null> -> 192.168.10.119
Oct 19 08:44:18 localhost ntpd[1658]: Soliciting pool server 133.243.238.163
Oct 19 08:44:18 localhost ntpd[1658]: bind(25) AF_INET6 [2405:MASKED:af2b]:123 flags 0x11 failed: Cannot assign requested address
Oct 19 08:44:18 localhost vmunix: [   44.506604] ntpd[1658]: segfault at 24 ip 000055d88235029b sp 00007fffdeb60e50 error 4 in ntpd[7f29b,55d8822e3000+86000] likely on CPU 0 (core 0, socket 0)
Oct 19 08:44:18 localhost vmunix: [   44.506614] Code: 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 08 31 c0 e8 3c 2e f9 ff 44 8b 28 48 89 c5 e8 61 9e ff ff 49 89 c4 48 85 db 0f 84 e5 00 00 00 <44> 0f b7 0b 66 41 83 f9 02 0f 84 f6 00 00 00 66 41 83 f
9 0a 74 57
Oct 19 08:44:18 localhost ntpd[1658]: unable to create socket on eno1 (6) for [2405:MASKED:af2b]:123
Oct 19 08:44:18 localhost shepherd[1]: Service ntpd (PID 1658) terminated with signal 11. 
Oct 19 08:44:18 localhost shepherd[1]: Service ntpd has been disabled. 
Oct 19 08:44:18 localhost shepherd[1]:   (Respawning too fast.)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I've had to do:

# herd enable ntpd
# herd start ntpd

To have it run again after the boot was completed.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

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