[OPENHABIAN] Failed to set ntp: NTP not supported

System: Host: galactica Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic x86_64 bits: 64 Console: tty 3 Distro: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa)
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During openhabian installation I’m getting:

2020-07-24_15:51:02_CEST [openHABian] Setting timezone based on openhabian.conf... OK (Europe/Warsaw)
Failed to set ntp: NTP not supported

I guess this is not normal?

IS that a valid timezone

Hmm, I have no idea, how to verify /change it?

menu 33 in openhabian-config should offer an option to change the time zone

Yes it is, however this error pop-ups in the earlier phase of the installation i.e. when I do command

openhabian-config unattended

following https://www.openhab.org/docs/installation/openhabian.html

Or I can just use openhabian-config instead?

I do not know the dependencies of the openhabian-config tool.
You may run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

This is also the command that is being executed from within openhabian-config.

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One more issue:

cp: cannot create regular file '/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/': No such file or directory

is this important? What causes it? I’m on Ubuntu 20.04

openhabian-config tries to configure the NTP setup by copying a configuration file that comes with the software to directory /lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks/.
As the directory does not exist the error message is being displayed.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man8/dhcpcd-run-hooks.8.html
You can try to install dhcpcd5. This package will create the directory.

The 2nd line is not a result of the 1st so please find out what’s the exact command to fail.
Set debugmode=maximum in /etc/openhabian.conf and run openhabian-config, try options in menu 33

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It should not do harm, but I changed the code to not mess with NTP on Ubuntu.
(why can’t you just use a RPi like everyone else ?)

Don’t install dhcpcd unless you know and want what it’s doing

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Thanks very much Markus :slight_smile: All is working well so far.

(why can’t you just use a RPi like everyone else ?)

Honesty, I bought NUC especially for OH because of having continuous issues of various nature with RPi 2 and 3 in the past. Don’t wan’t to go back to it even if there is promising RPi 4.

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Well the point is RPi/Raspbian is the development platform and we cannot test everything on Ubuntu so hiccups like this remain to be expectable.

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