Comment 8 for bug 1878005

root@dc2:/etc/chrony# systemctl status chrony
● chrony.service - chrony, an NTP client/server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/chrony.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: protocol) since Wed 2020-05-13 15:07:23 CEST; 21s ago
       Docs: man:chronyd(8)
             man:chronyc(1)
             man:chrony.conf(5)
    Process: 15177 ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/scripts/chronyd-starter.sh $DAEMON_OPTS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Process: 15186 ExecStartPost=/usr/lib/chrony/chrony-helper update-daemon (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Mai 13 15:07:22 dc2 systemd[1]: Starting chrony, an NTP client/server...
Mai 13 15:07:22 dc2 chronyd[15182]: chronyd version 3.5 starting (+CMDMON +NTP +REFCLOCK +RTC +PRIVDROP +SCFILTER +SIGND +ASYNCDNS >
Mai 13 15:07:22 dc2 chronyd[15182]: Frequency -2.286 +/- 1.012 ppm read from /var/lib/chrony/chrony.drift
Mai 13 15:07:23 dc2 systemd[1]: chrony.service: New main PID 15182 does not exist or is a zombie.
Mai 13 15:07:23 dc2 systemd[1]: chrony.service: Failed with result 'protocol'.
Mai 13 15:07:23 dc2 systemd[1]: Failed to start chrony, an NTP client/server.

root@dc2:/etc/chrony# cat /run/chronyd.pid
cat: /run/chronyd.pid: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

[Skipped ps axlf | grep $(cat /run/chronyd.pid)]

root@dc2:/etc/chrony# ps axlf | grep chrony
0 0 15232 2599 20 0 6788 600 pipe_w S+ pts/0 0:00 \_ grep --color=auto chrony

root@dc2:/etc/chrony# source /etc/default/chrony
root@dc2:/etc/chrony# /usr/lib/systemd/scripts/chronyd-starter.sh $DAEMON_OPTS
root@dc2:/etc/chrony# echo $?
0
root@dc2:/etc/chrony# ps axlf | grep chrony
0 0 15251 2599 20 0 6788 552 pipe_w S+ pts/0 0:00 \_ grep --color=auto chrony

My system is a Raspberry Pi 3.

processor : 3
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 38.40
Features : half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt vfpd32 lpae evtstrm crc32
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xd03
CPU revision : 4

Hardware : BCM2835
Revision : a22082
Serial : 00000000b222c465
Model : Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Rev 1.2