Re: SheevaPlug, hctosys: unable to open rtc device, after Buster upgrade

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Thanks for the explanation!

> On Sep 30, 2019, at 12:22 AM, Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org> wrote:
> 
> IIRC systemd-timesyncd fast forwards the time at boot time to be not
> earlier than before the last shutdown. Maybe this is not active for you?
> (There is
> /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.conf
> on my system that disables timesyncd when ntpd or similar software is
> installed.)

Ahhh… So the fact that I have ntp installed is what’s saving me?

FWIW, I also have fake-hwclock installed on tis machine.  I don’t recall exactly what made me do that, but maybe I was already having this problem back then, and solved it that way?

Curiouser and curiouser, cried Alice!
Rick

PS:  So AIUI from your explanation, under systemd the setting of the system clock from the hardware clock is being done in the kernel, and not in user space at all?  Was this (moving it out of user space) done to get the clock set before the first entries were written to the system log?  Or am I missing something…

Enjoy!