Hi, I’m running two Raspberry Pi devices on DietPi, both as dedicated Pi-hole and Nginx reverse proxy. I’m attempting to update both to DietPi version 9.14.2, but I keep encountering the following error: Failed to start systemd-timesyncd.service: Unit systemd-timesyncd.service not found. I’ve tri…

I ran apt install systemd-timesyncd and now the error doesn’t show anymore, but when applying the update the ssh output stops and nothing happens. I restart the ssh session and the update clearly didn’t apply, as it’s still telling me I need to do it.

Failed to start systemd-timesyncd.service error during update attempt

Troubleshooting

Joulinar 24 June 2025 18:47 2

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