Bug#277298: Kernel 2.6.x real time clock hang on Dell

[Brecht Samyn <Brecht.Samyn@kulak.ac.be>]

No luck with kernel-source-2.6.8 and this patch: I get exactly the same 
result.
I also tried the 2.6.9-1-686-smp kernel from sid, but I get the same error.

brecht

Horms wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 03:55:37PM +0100, Brecht Samyn wrote:
>  
>
> > I installed sarge (kernel 2.6.8-1-686-smp) to my PE 2850 and have the 
> > same problem:
> >
> > *) kernel stops after saying "Real Time Clock Driver v1.12".
> > *) When I press ctrl-c, the booting continues until the hwclock.sh 
> > scripts runs, then it stops again. *) After another ctrl-c, the boot is 
> > complete.
> >
> > The same behaviour when halting: the "hwclock.sh stop" hangs (and now 
> > ctrl-c doesn't work anymore ;-) ).
> >
> > I can't run hwclock too:
> >   # hwclock -r
> > hangs (also while configuring the timezone during install).
> >    
>
> Can you please take a moment to test the patch logged against bug 270426
> which I believe is related.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270426
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