Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 02:14:24PM -0500, David Teague wrote:
> Hi
>
> My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and
> 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk.
[...]
> gandalf# /sbin/hwclock -w
> mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.
You didn't mention the version of hwclock/util-linux you were using,
but older (slink-era) versions will fail on some CMOS because of where
the century byte is stored. I know I used to get exactly this error
when I first tried to get hwclock to work on a PS/2, for example.
-Kevin
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Kevin A. Foss ---- kfoss@mint.net
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