tests: remove NTP service on Xenial

The auto-refresh tests and the degraded test were all failing. The former happened because chrony sometimes failed to run and the latter because ntp.service conflicted with chrony. Removing ntp and leaving chrony fixes both issues. Signed-off-by: Miguel Pires <[email protected]>
canonical · Jan 7, 2025 · 324956b · 324956b
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diff --git a/tests/lib/prepare-restore.sh b/tests/lib/prepare-restore.sh
@@ -232,6 +232,16 @@ install_dependencies_gce_bucket(){
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 prepare_project() {
+    # we install chrony on xenial (as its also used in later distros), so the
+    # ntp service was in conflict, degrading the systemd unit and sometimes breaking
+    # NTP syncs
+    if os.query is-xenial; then
+      systemctl stop ntp.service
+      systemctl disable ntp.service
+      apt-get remove --purge -y ntp
+      systemctl reset-failed
+    fi
+
     if os.query is-ubuntu && os.query is-classic; then
         apt-get remove --purge -y lxd lxcfs || true
         apt-get autoremove --purge -y