Re: MIPS Qube always fscks root filesystem

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a MIPS Qube running Debian testing with a 2.4.24 kernel.
> 
> The problem is, that every time I reboot I get this:
> 
>     Checking root file system...
>     fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
>     /dev/hda3 has gone 49710 days without being checked, check forced.
> 
> If I reboot it immediately, it gets fscked again. 
> 
> Anybody got an idea why this is happening?                             

Either the RTC backup battery is broken, or the RTC has some weird date
and is never updated correctly. The latter could be caused by running
woody's hwclock on a newer kernel (the ioctl format was changed).


Thiemo