Ubuntu
gnome-system-tools package

Unable to activate NTP support in the installer because it's not installed (?!)

Bug #52718 reported by Daniel Burrows
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

The date/time configuration step of the Dapper graphical installer provides a button that claims to allow you to enable NTP, but clicking on it tells you that you aren't allowed to click it because NTP is not installed. Since I'm running the installer, this should not be surprising...

  I see two obvious solutions here:

    (1) When the user enables NTP in the installer, just store a flag indicating that they want to install NTP support, and read this later to enable it on the installed system.
    (2) Disable or hide this button if NTP support is not installed (I presume it's referring to the Live CD system when it complains). Presenting a button that just produces an error message is a bit ugly.

Revision history for this message
Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

There used to be a GST_NO_INSTALL_NTP patch in gnome-system-tools to turn off the "Install NTP support" button (because at that point it triggered a bug in ubiquity which produced an extremely confusing crash later on; that bug has now been fixed). However, this change seems to have been dropped with no explanation.

Could the gnome-system-tools maintainers please:

(a) reinstate mvo's GST_NO_INSTALL_NTP change
(b) make it hide the NTP part of the time-admin UI altogether?

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
importance: Untriaged → Medium
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I think we should go with option (b) and rename the environment to GST_NO_NTP. That should hide the checkbox "Keep clock syncronized" and the button "Select Servers").

I can do this change on monday if there is consens.

Cheers,
 Michael

Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Fixed with the latest upload (both checkbutton and button are hidden when GST_NO_NTP is set).

The ntpdate button (sync now) is still active as we have ntpdate on the live-cd.

Changed in gnome-system-tools:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: Confirmed → In Progress
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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