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Bug#398449: marked as done (/sbin/hwclock: fails to use RTC, hence 1 hour shift in my TZ)

Your message dated Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:15:24 +0200
with message-id <20080913201524.GB7290@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>
and subject line uses new-style rtc and hpet emulation now
has caused the Debian Bug report #386226,
regarding /sbin/hwclock: fails to use RTC, hence 1 hour shift in my TZ
to be marked as done.

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386226: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386226
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12r-12
Severity: grave
File: /sbin/hwclock
Justification: renders package unusable

Using manual command:
    hwclock --show
waits a few seconds and fails with the message:
    select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
and so is the --hctosys command.

Etch kernel here is linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 version 2.6.17-9.
Booting the same hardware to sarge + 2.6.17 or 2.6.18 is fine and its
hwclock works as expected (so not a hardware bug).

I found this after tracking why I had a 1 hour time shift at boot.  I
normally use Europe/Paris for my local time, but I had to work around this
bug by setting the system timezone to GMT (I hope this is temporary).

Playing manually with hwclock I also discovered --directisa, which when
added makes it work but I guess this is for debug only and should not be
used in production.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-7                     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurs 5.5-5                           Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libslang 2.0.6-4                         The S-Lang programming library - r
ii  libuuid1 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-2 universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base 3.1-15                          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.3-13                      compression library - runtime

util-linux recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Hope this helps,
Fabien.

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Version: 2.6.26-1

Since 2.6.26 we only have new-style RTC and the HPET irq emulation
enabled. This should have fixed this.

Bastian

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