Re: Re: fsck Fails On Reboot After Partially Completed Testing Upgrade
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
That may not fix it. Try setting your clock to UTC (and set UTC=yes in
/etc/default/rcS). If you can live with that, your Debian system will be
that much happier and stable, hardware clocks were meant to be always in
UTC, it's just old DOS and Microsoft Windows that don't know it ;-)
If you cannot, well, we are fixing the bug but it will take some time. The
workaround that MAY work for you is to add TZ=ABC+XX:00 at the top of
/etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh, where ABC is just three or four letters with
the name of your timezone, and +XX is the offset to WEST of UTC of your
timezone. I.e. it is +03 if you are at UTC-03:00, or -05 if you are at
UTC+05... (don't ask why the stupid sign convention).
Thanks for the reply. I wanted to implement your suggestion after reading your posts on
the list and the 2 related bug reports. But, being relatively new to Debian and linux, I
don't know how. My time zone is CST, UTC-06. Time in KDE is set to CST and I can't find
a way to change it. I did a 'date -u' to change clock to UTC and got:
ChatagnierL-Home:/home/lchata# date -u
Mon Jan 9 00:18:09 UTC 2006
versus Sunday Jan 8 18:25 CST, if ok so far, then
set UTC=yes in /etc/default/reS
Then, do I need to set TZ=CST+06:00 also or is the above sufficient? Or, should
this change alone provide the workaround?
Will KDE still read out CST or UTC?
If the numbers I substituted for my time zone are correct and the outlined procedure is
correct, I'll implement it and report back the results. Thanks for helping out a Linux dummy.
Leonard Chatagnier
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