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● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2019-08-17 04:32:34 PDT; 11min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)
  Process: 4629 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)
 Main PID: 4629 (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)

It still says this after I created /var/lib/systemd/timesync/.

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  • Is there any more errors than just the status when you (re-)start it?
    – Christian Ehrhardt
    Aug 19, 2019 at 6:31
  • It worked previously: Jun 17 11:57:41 zathras systemd-timesyncd[696]: Synchronized to time server [2001:67c:1560:8003::c7]:123 (ntp.ubuntu.com).
    – Joe Inwap
    Aug 20, 2019 at 0:54
  • It failed later that same day after an upgrade and reboot. Jun 17 16:36:43 zathras systemd[1]: Starting Network Time Synch. Jun 17 16:36:43 zathras systemd[941]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed to set up special execution directory in /var/lib: File exists Jun 17 16:36:43 zathras systemd[941]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed at step STATE_DIRECTORY spawning /lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd: File exists Jun 17 16:36:43 zathras systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: process exited, code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY Jun 17 16:36:43 zathras Failed with result 'exit-code'.
    – Joe Inwap
    Aug 20, 2019 at 1:08
  • ls -ld /var/lib/private' drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 17 14:57 /var/lib/private/`
    – Joe Inwap
    Aug 27, 2019 at 9:57
  • The fix from Fedora (chmod 0700 /var/lib/private) does not fix the problem.
    – Joe Inwap
    Aug 27, 2019 at 10:05

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It's working now.

    # chmod 700 /var/lib/private
    # rm -r /var/lib/private/systemd
    # systemctl start systemd-timesyncd
    # timedatectl status
                      Local time: Wed 2019-08-28 17:55:15 PDT
                  Universal time: Thu 2019-08-29 00:55:15 UTC
                        RTC time: Thu 2019-08-29 00:55:15
                       Time zone: America/Los_Angeles (PDT, -0700)
       System clock synchronized: yes
systemd-timesyncd.service active: yes
                 RTC in local TZ: no
    # ls -ld /var/lib/private/systemd/timesync
    drwxr-xr-x 2 systemd-timesync systemd-timesync 4096 Aug 28 17:51 timesync/
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