Re: blank screen after hwclock --hctosys

[André Wöbbeking <list@onlinehome.de>]

On Saturday 01 January 2005 11:46, Joerg Reckers wrote:

01 January 2005 ???

> Problem:
> If i do a "hwclock --hctosys" in kde (i do it in an xterm) after the
> machine wakes up from a supend to disk, the screen gets completly
> black for a minute or so. After that everything is fine and the
> system time is updated.
>
> i dont understand.
> why does the screen blank?
> why does it so long?

Your system time is out of sync. If the difference is too big X has a 
problem to synchronize. Have a look at ntpdate or ntp.


Cheers,
André