Re: NSLU2 hang on "Setting system clock.."

[Marc Singer <elf@buici.com>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 07:33:59PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Marc Singer wrote:
> > I've been looking for clues as to why one of my slugs would hang on
> > calling hwclock --show.  The initial symptom is that it fails when it
> > attempts to run the hwclock.sh script.
> 
> IIRC this can happen if your clock isn't running. nslu2s ship with a
> hardware clock that's turned off, and it's started running once the
> clock is set. Typically this happens if you use the web interface that
> ships on the slug to set the clock. If you don't do so before installing
> Debian, you might still not have a running clock.
> 
> Try using hwclock to set the clock, and see if that clears up the
> problem.

I tried that as well.  No dice.

  # hwclock --systohc

This causes the system to lock-up as well.