Clock adjust during startup prevents router from starting

[Reportage]

If the system's clock is updated during the router's startup, the router fails to start with no indication that it failed other than the lack of the router console opening in the browser (if configured). I think this issue may have been reported before.

To reproduce, manually sync the computer's clock during router startup.

[zzz]

Can't reproduce, trying with i2prouter start; sleep xxx; timedatectl set-time hh:mm

How long after start are you setting the time, how far are you adjusting the clock, and is it forward or backward?

[Reportage]

The system clock iirc was about 10 minutes behind before network sync, enough for a warning to appear in the logs, due to a hardware fault.

Try: i2p start && watch -n 10 "sudo ntpdate ntpool.org"
or maybe: i2p start && watch -n 5 "timedatectl set-time wrong:time && sudo ntpdate ntpool.org"

The behavior described was intermittent and was conditional upon crontab job firing at startup to sync the computer's clock with a remote server. Not the easiest of bugs to troubleshoot, but the remote time sync appeared to be the event that caused the router to fail to start, in the event that the system clock was inconsistent with network time.