chronyd service randomly fails to start at boot on Azure VMs if configured with hyper-v PHC refclock

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • chronyd fails to start with Could not open PHC
  • chronyd service randomly fails to start on Microsoft Azure RHEL8 instances

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Hyper-V

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