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I've scanned all forums and questions and found no working answer to my problem.
The Network Time Synchronization service doesn't work. The timedatectl service seems to work just fine without it though but it shows that the systemd-timesyncd is not active

torof@OMEN:~$ timedatectl status

                  Local time: Fri 2019-02-08 15:12:47 CET

              Universal time: Fri 2019-02-08 14:12:47 UTC

                    RTC time: Fri 2019-02-08 14:12:47

                   Time zone: Europe/Paris (CET, +0100)

   System clock synchronized: yes

   systemd-timesyncd.service active: no

             RTC in local TZ: no

The libnss-systemd is already installed.

I have checked the syslog but couldn't figure out the problem, enabled and restarted service to no avail.

torof@OMEN:~$ systemctl status systemd-timesyncd

● systemd-timesyncd.service - Network Time Synchronization

   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)

   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2019-02-08 13:57:04 CET; 13min ago

     Docs: man:systemd-timesyncd.service(8)

  Process: 4383 ExecStart=/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)

 Main PID: 4383 (code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY)



Feb 08 13:57:04 OMEN systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=238/STATE_DIRECTORY

Feb 08 13:57:04 OMEN systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Feb 08 13:57:04 OMEN systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Time Synchronization.

Feb 08 13:57:04 OMEN systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Service has no hold-off time, scheduling restart.

Feb 08 13:57:04 OMEN systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.

Feb 08 13:57:04 OMEN systemd[1]: Stopped Network Time Synchronization.

Feb 08 13:57:04 OMEN systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.

Feb 08 13:57:04 OMEN systemd[1]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Feb 08 13:57:04 OMEN systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Time Synchronization.

What is going wrong, where to find the problem and how to solve it ?

This systemd Github issue lists a comment with a workaround:

chmod 0700 /var/lib/private