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Re: RTC Bug on Indy?



On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Edwin Kwan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	I have installed "woody" on an SGI Indy.  "uname -r"
> gives 2.4.16.
> 
> 	I noticed a problem with the "Hardware Clock".  Looks
> like "hwclock" could not read an hour value >= 20 (and <=23 of
> course).  Writing it seems to be okay.  Please see the log 
> below.
> 
> 	As a result, the system time is screwed up whenever
> I boot up the machine between 8pm and midnight. :)  I glanced
> through the "hwclock" source code a bit, and I suspect this is
> a bug in the kernel (ioctl call).  Right?  Which version has
> this fixed?  Any other suggestion?

Kernel 2.4.22 with hwclock from util-linux-2.11z works allright on my
DECstation 5000/133, hwclock from util-linux-2.11n gave an error with
kernel 2.4.22. I pulled 2.4.22 from CVS and util-linux-2.11z source from a
Debian mirror.

Regards,
Richard



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