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Workstations timezone and home problems



Hi,

I have installed some workstations and unfortunately I cant use netstart to make them boot in the morning. (Old switches). So I made them start via bios start. Problem is the hardware clock get synced at shutdown, but it does not get the proper timezone. Instead of getting my local timezone they get the universal timezone.

As example, I do ltsp-chroot and then dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

Then I set timezone to Stockholm. It accepts the settings and prints;
Local time is now: sometime
Universal time is now: two hours earlier then above.

But the workstations get there hardware clocks set to the universal time at shutdown, not the local time. Why? How can I fix this? Of course I can set the bios start time two hours to early to compensate, but that seems to be a bit of a hack.

Another problem I noticed is that if you log in to a ws and then logout again within a minute or so, and then you log in to the next one (for testing purposes) you can do that about three times, and then you get the dreaded message that it "cant mount home dir, using /" preventing you from logging in for some time. Anyone seen this and know how to fix it? Of course its not that big issue, since that login behaviour is not very common, but I dont see why it happens.

Greetings George


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