Bug#127975: config option for calling hwclock

[Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

In message <[🔎] 15415.45692.249333.675321@gargle.gargle.HOWL>, Matthias Klose write
s:
>Installing on an Apple Quadra 950 (m68k), I found the first boot
>hanging when trying to read the hardware clock, and more important,
>hanging during shutdown, resulting in a fsck for the next boot. Found
>out the hard way, that the hardware clock is broken on this machine
>(Debian archives 1999). I realize that the hardware clock works on
>most systems, but a question (probably for m68k only) to set
>HWCLOCKACCESS to 'no' in /etc/default/rcS (which is read by
>hwclock.sh) would be welcome ...

Is there really nothing that hwclock can do to detect and avoid this
situation?  I would be loath to add this kind of stuff to the boot-floppies,
particularly if it means the user has to ask more questions.  (Admittedly
that probably doesn't matter so much for m68k, but still.)

p.