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    NTP installation problem

    Greetings,
    I tried to install NTP for synchronizing ntp between the node and the cloud controller..My nodes get detected but since NTP is not synchronized I dont get th desired output. while installing NTP i face the following problem.

    Code:
    eucalyptus@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install ntp
    [sudo] password for eucalyptus: 
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    ntp is already the newest version.
    The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
      linux-headers-2.6.32-38 linux-headers-2.6.32-45
      linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic-pae linux-headers-2.6.32-38-generic-pae
      linux-headers-2.6.32-45-generic
    Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
    0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    3 not fully installed or removed.
    After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
    Setting up eucalyptus-common (1.6.2-0ubuntu30.5) ...
    chown: cannot access `/var/lib/eucalyptus/.gvfs': Permission denied
    dpkg: error processing eucalyptus-common (--configure):
     subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of eucalyptus-gl:
     eucalyptus-gl depends on eucalyptus-common; however:
      Package eucalyptus-common is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing eucalyptus-gl (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of eucalyptus-nc:
     eucalyptus-nc depends on eucalyptus-common; however:
      Package eucalyptus-common is not configured yet.
     eucalyptus-nc depends on eucalyptus-gl; however:
      Package eucalyptus-gl is not configured yet.
    dpkg: error processing eucalyptus-nc (--configure):
     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
    No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                              No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                        Errors were encountered while processing:
     eucalyptus-common
     eucalyptus-gl
     eucalyptus-nc
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
    Can somebody plz tell whats wrong and what am I suppose dto do to fix it.
    on viewing the permisions for .gvfs file it seems to be permission denied even for root user..
    How to fix this.

    Thanks in advance.

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    Re: NTP installation problem

    Seems that you have a package manager issue to resolve before trying to get NTP working correctly. The errors do not seem to have anything whatsoever to do with NTP.

    dpkg: error processing eucalyptus-common (--configure):
    That is the issue. Besides running sudo apt-get install -f, I can't help. You do need to fix your package management before dealing with any other issue.

    Once you do, the current date/time on the systems need to be close enough to correct so that NTP will converge on the correct time. I would think that being within 15 minutes would be close enough for NTP.

    NTP sorta just works here for Linux. I have 1 Linux server on the network that gets time from public sources, then all the other machines sync off it ... machines running MS-Windows need to be synched every 15 minutes to keep accurate time here - more than 1 have large drifts amounts if I sync less often. Linux machines sync with the defaults after I point the ntp.conf at the local server and remove the internet-based ....ntp.org settings. I've had a problem with multiple MS-Windows machines since 1998 - different hardware setups, but always MS-Wibndows. After those machines have been upgraded to Linux, the drift issue is gone completely, so it isn't the CMOS battery or some issue with the system clock - it was MS-Windows.

    Good luck getting your package management cleaned up. Perhaps you can just reimage the problem machine using Rex, Puppet, Chef or whatever tool you use to manage your infrastructure?

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