After upgrading to Aria Automation 8.18, the systemd-timesyncd service does not start automatically.

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

After upgrading to Aria Automation 8.18, the systemd-timesyncd service does not start automatically.

Checking the service status and the symlink directory shows the following output:

# systemctl status systemd-timesyncd
● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)

# ls -l /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/
total 0

Environment

Aria Automation 8.18.x

Cause

During the OS upgrade from Photon OS 3.0 to 4.0 that occurs as part of the Aria Automation upgrade, the following symlink goes missing:

/etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd.service -> /usr/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service

Resolution

To resolve this issue, recreate the symlink and start the service by running the following commands:

1. Recreate the missing symlink:
   
   systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd
   
   
2. Start the systemd-timesyncd service:
   
   systemctl start systemd-timesyncd