I have been battling with Chrony for the last few hours and cannot seem to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I found that my system time was set to 2015 when trying to activate Epel-release in DNF, some certificate errors lead me to trying to resolve time date issues. Below is all my relevant output:
# timedatectl
Local time: Wed 2021-05-05 16:24:27 EDT
Universal time: Wed 2021-05-05 20:24:27 UTC
RTC time: Wed 2021-05-05 20:24:27
Time zone: America/Detroit (EDT, -0400)
System clock synchronized: no
NTP service: active
RTC in local TZ: no
I had to set time manually, so this is actually one minute fast so that I could see if it ran correctly.
# chronyc sources
210 Number of sources = 4
MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
===============================================================================
^? ntp.speculation.org 0 9 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
^? c-73-239-136-185.hsd1.wa> 0 9 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
^? 165.227.106.11 0 9 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
^? x.ns.gin.ntt.net 0 9 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns
# chronyc activity
200 OK
5 sources online
0 sources offline
0 sources doing burst (return to online)
0 sources doing burst (return to offline)
0 sources with unknown address
Looking at other people's sources output this seems not only unrealistic, but just wrong
# systemctl stop chronyd
# chronyd -q
2021-05-05T20:31:16Z chronyd version 3.5 starting (+CMDMON +NTP +REFCLOCK +RTC +PRIVDROP +SCFILTER +SIGND +ASYNCDNS +SECHASH +IPV6 +DEBUG)
2021-05-05T20:31:16Z Frequency -97.480 +/- 1.274 ppm read from /var/lib/chrony/drift
2021-05-05T20:31:16Z Using right/UTC timezone to obtain leap second data
2021-05-05T20:31:27Z No suitable source for synchronisation
2021-05-05T20:31:27Z chronyd exiting
I'm not even sure where to start troubleshooting this, I have tried with and without firewalld running.
# cat /etc/chrony.conf
# Use public servers from the pool.ntp.org project.
# Please consider joining the pool (http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html).
server 0.centos.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 1.centos.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.centos.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 3.centos.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.pool.ntp.org iburst
# 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
# Specify file containing keys for NTP authentication.
keyfile /etc/chrony.keys
# 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
I have edited my conf files a ton, my pools might be a little weird but I wasn't sure what else to have them set to. before this there was just 1 pool directive that I foolishly removed without backing up.
# ntpstat
unsynchronised
poll interval unknown
Finally by suggestion of a friend, I used ntpstat and it gave me this output..
I have tried chronyc makestep and refresh, both of which have yielding nothing as well
Edit: Update, I changed my config to include "pool" instead of "server" where applicable to see if that fixed me issue. No dice
