chronyd is running and offline

Hi Guys,

While installing Openstack Liberty or Mitaka at the NTP implementation face you might have come across the below error.

"root@controller:/etc/chrony# service chrony restart
Restarting time daemon: Starting /usr/sbin/chronyd...
chronyd is running and offline."

"root@compute1:/etc/chrony# chronyc sources
506 Cannot talk to daemon"

 Why this error ?

Chrony daemon try to bind with the localhost by default, but when it looks for it doesn't resolve to the desired IP address. This error usually comes when you comment out or remove the localhost entries from your /etc/hosts file.

Note: The openstack installation guide suggest you to put entries for controller,compute,block,object etc in your hosts file and take out the localhost entries, But this may not work in all the OS distributions.

Fix:-

Just put back the local host entries to /etc/hosts file.

root@controller:~# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
# controller
10.1.1.111       controller

# compute1
10.1.1.112       compute1

# block1
10.1.1.113      block1

# object1
10.1.1.114       object1

# object2
10.1.1.115      object2