Bug 255275

Summary: yast NTP configuration: looking up NTP servers
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Karl Eichwalder <ke>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Alpha 2   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
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Description Karl Eichwalder 2007-03-16 09:38:06 UTC
YaST offers to search for NTP servers in your net.  This silently fails (~ "No server found") if the appropriate port is not open.  I propose to enhance the result message.  As an example, check the message you see, if you try to add an "Installation Source" (catalog) via SLP scan:

                ───────────────────────────────────────────────────┐                
 │             │  No SLP catalogs have been found on your network. │                
 │             │  This could be caused by a running SuSEfirewall2, │                
 │             │  which probably blocks the network scanning.      │
Comment 1 Katarina Machalkova 2007-03-18 17:19:58 UTC
Uh, but the message (saying something like 'no servers found because your SuSEFirewall is running') is actually there :-)
If you don't see it (and you definitely should), seems that you've hit the bug. Please attach YaST logs.
Comment 2 Katarina Machalkova 2007-03-22 17:12:04 UTC
Ping :)
Without YaST logs, I tend to close this as 'worksforme', because it really does
Comment 3 Karl Eichwalder 2007-03-23 07:46:02 UTC
In the past, it never worked for me and there was no hint concerning firewall settings ;)  And Tanja got also fooled by it recently (updating 10.1 to 10.2, IIRC).  I'll try to catch a nice log soonish.

Yes, I should pay more attention to these needinfo requests ;(
Comment 4 Karl Eichwalder 2007-03-27 09:42:47 UTC
You are right, Katarina :)  I was able to verify your claim on SLES10 SP1 RC1.