OCI: timedatectl Command is Not Working

Applies to: 

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later  

Linux x86-64  

 

Symptoms  

Unable to modify and check the status of time and date :

$ timedatectl status 
Failed to query server: No route to host 

 

Cause 

In this case, the issue was caused by multiple directories and files accidentally removed and missing from the system:

$ rpm -Va 
missing /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/com.redhat.problems.configuration.mailx.xml 
missing /usr/share/libreport/conf.d/plugins/mailx.conf 
missing /usr/share/libreport/events/report_Mailx.xml 
missing /usr/share/libreport/workflows/workflow_Mailx.xml 
missing /usr/share/libreport/workflows/workflow_MailxCCpp.xml 
missing d /usr/share/man/man1/reporter-mailx.1.gz 
missing d /usr/share/man/man5/mailx.conf.5.gz 
missing d /usr/share/man/man5/mailx_event.conf.5.gz 
.... 
missing /usr/share/locale/aa 
missing /usr/share/locale/aa/LC_MESSAGES 
missing /usr/share/locale/ab 
missing /usr/share/locale/ab/LC_MESSAGES 
missing /usr/share/locale/ace 
missing /usr/share/locale/ace/LC_MESSAGES 
missing /usr/share/locale/ach 
missing /usr/share/locale/ach/LC_MESSAGES 
missing /usr/share/locale/ada 
missing /usr/share/locale/ada/LC_MESSAGES 
missing /usr/share/locale/ady 
missing /usr/share/locale/ady/LC_MESSAGES 
missing /usr/share/locale/ae 
missing /usr/share/locale/ae/LC_MESSAGES 
missing /usr/share/locale/af 
missing /usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES 
missing /usr/share/locale/af_ZA 
missing /usr/share/locale/af_ZA/LC_MESSAGES 
..... 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/README 
missing /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/AUTHORS 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/BUGS 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/COPYING 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/COPYING.LESSER 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/FAQ.html 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/NEWS 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/TODO 
missing /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/examples 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/examples/ReadMe 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/examples/divworst.c 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/examples/rndo-add.c 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/examples/sample.c 
missing d /usr/share/doc/mpfr-3.1.1/mpfr/examples/version.c 
$ rpm -Va | grep "/usr/share" | wc -l 
79715 <<<<<<<<--------- 79k files,folders missing