Bug#277298: testing workaround

[Erik van Konijnenburg <ekonijn@xs4all.nl>]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:32:19AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:43:04AM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> > 
> > Tested on Dell GX280, ICH6 instead of ICH5; your workaround seems to work:
> > 
> > 	framboos:~# hwclock --show
> > 	Tue 21 Dec 2004 03:05:02 AM CET  -0.672601 seconds
> > 	framboos:~# hwclock-2.12 --show
> > 	select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
> > 	framboos:~#
> 
> Okay, that is the easy part  :-)
> 
> Does the workaround allow reboot without "apci=off"
> and without pressing Control-C ?

That worked already, util-linux-2.12h has working timeout on rtc
failures.  In d-i rc2 the hang is gone, so the only motivation
for the workaround would be to create a working hwclock.
Just tested reboot: as expected the timeout error is gone now.

Regards, Erik