_Originally created by @anonym on [#10494 (Redmine)](https://public-redmine-archive.tails.boum.org/code/issues/10494)_ After tails/tails#9516 our automated test suite has started reporting a lot of failures of this kind: ``` ./features/step_definitions/common_steps.rb:344:in `/^the time has synced$/' ``` because the amount of Tor bootstrapping issues (that generally happens right before where the above error may appear) has decreased. Just like with tails/tails#9516, this is an actual problem with Tails, and not just a test suite issue. We should add some retrying logic around `htpdate`, possibly with a `retry_for()`-based shell wrapper. Or we implement that type of retry-logic (retries + timeouts) in `htpdate`’s Perl. Feature Branch: bugfix/10494-retry-curl-in-htpdate ### Subtasks - [x] tails/tails#11575 ### Related issues - **Related to** tails/tails#11577 - **Related to** tails/sysadmin#11562 - **Blocks** tails/tails#10495 - [x] **Blocked by** tails/tails#11574