Re: New kernel clock problems

["Γιώργος Μιχαλογιωργάκης" <giorgis.m@gmail.com>]

On Feb 12, 2008 3:02 AM, Frank <debian@videotron.ca> wrote:
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> The last two Kernel updates on my Debian Sid system have messed up the
> clock setting on boot.
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> Mon Feb 11 20:51:12 2008: Setting the system clock.
> Mon Feb 11 20:51:12 2008: select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick
> timed out
> Mon Feb 11 20:51:12 2008: ^[[33m*^[[39;49m Unable to set System Clock
> to: Tue Feb 12 01:51:12 UTC 2008
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> Should I file a bug or wait to see what happens ? It doesn't seem
> to affect the time as I run NTP to sync the clock.
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>

Hi,

I had a similar problem and it got fixed by adding the "--directisa"
option in the
HWCLOCKPARS variable in /etc/init.d/hwclock*.sh

Bye,
Giorgos