[KUDU-2242] Wait for NTP synchronization on startup

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: server, supportability
• Target Version/s: Backlog
• Assignee: William Berkeley
• Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans
• Created: 15/Dec/17 18:03
• Updated: 03/Oct/18 00:10
• Resolved: 03/Oct/18 00:10

Description

A common issue when restarting servers is that the clock won't be synchronized right away and the Kudu services will refuse to start. We should be more tolerant to this, maybe a few simple retries?