Linux CentOS 7.3 启动chrony服务失败

1.在Linux CentOS 7.3上安装chrony服务，安装完成，启动该服务时报错 。报错信息如下所示

2.检查该服务状态未启动，查看详细信息如下所示

[root@centos7 ~]#journalctl -xe
Apr 29 15:56:10 centos7.magedu.org systemd[1]: Unit chronyd.service entered failed state.
Apr 29 15:56:10 centos7.magedu.org systemd[1]: chronyd.service failed.
Apr 29 15:56:10 centos7.magedu.org polkitd[522]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:5752:6605232 (system bus name :1.14
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org polkitd[522]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:5768:6631624 (system bus name :1.143 
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org systemd[1]: Starting NTP client/server...
-- Subject: Unit chronyd.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit chronyd.service has begun starting up.
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org chronyd[5776]: chronyd version 3.4 starting (+CMDMON +NTP +REFCLOCK +RTC +PRIVDROP +SCFILTER +SIGND 
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org chronyd[5776]: Could not change ownership of /var/run/chrony : Operation not permitted
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org chronyd[5774]: Could not open /var/run/chrony/chronyd.pid : No such file or directory
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org chronyd[5776]: Could not access /var/run/chrony : No such file or directory
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org chronyd[5776]: Disabled command socket /var/run/chrony/chronyd.sock
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org chronyd[5776]: Fatal error : Could not open /var/run/chrony/chronyd.pid : No such file or directory
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org systemd[1]: chronyd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org systemd[1]: Failed to start NTP client/server.
-- Subject: Unit chronyd.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit chronyd.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org systemd[1]: Unit chronyd.service entered failed state.
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org systemd[1]: chronyd.service failed.
Apr 29 16:00:34 centos7.magedu.org polkitd[522]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:5768:6631624 (system bus name :1.14

该问题原因为：使用 yum -y install chrony命令，自动安装了最新版的chrony服务（配套7.7内核）。由于我的系统是7.3，可能不兼容高版本的chrony服务，导致服务启动失败。

最终解决方法：了解问题原因，可采用2种方法解决：

1、使用yum -y update。将系统版本升级至最新即可解决。（我使用的此方法）

2、使用CentOS 7.3 yum源，安装兼容7.3的Chrony版本。

原文链接：https://blog.csdn.net/YaMemory/article/details/104566031