Bug#552810: initramfs-tools: Localtime not set during initramfs boot leading to wrong fsck.ext4 errors

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:05:09AM +0100, ed.gomez@free.fr wrote:
> Package: initramfs-tools
> Version: 0.93.4
> Severity: important
> 
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> 
> After a power grid problem in my neighborhood, my workstation
> rebooted and detected problems in the ext4 LVM volumes.
> 
> It appears that after a manual fsck.ext4, these problems were
> trigerred because of a mismatch between the localtime and the time
> set during initramfs boot sequence (probably the bios time).
> 
> The journal entries timestaps were simply offseted by one hour. This
> matches exactly the difference between the my bios time (set to UTC)
> and the Europe/Paris locatime my box uses.
> 
> I think it would be good to set to the correct locatime before running
> disk checks that depend on the machine time. Otherwise it triggers
> errors that cannot be skipped automatically when they could be.

initramfs does not do *any* fsck.

also please just use UTC everywhere, this looks more like a
user support question those are to be asked in a debian user
mailinglist. thanks