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Re: "superblock last write time is in the future" on boot



On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Ray Lanza wrote:
> Is using UTC the last word for this problem?  I must dual-boot with windows on my machine.

No, of course not.  It is the _easiest_ fix.  It is becoming aparent that we
can do a much better fix in glibc, but I need to investigate more.  And
there is always the workaround of setting TZ in /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh
for the meanwhile.

> My linux configuration is relatively simple with everything on a single
> partition. Time zone is set properly, is not a symbolic link and is in the
> same filesystem as root.

So it should just work.  Make sure /etc/default/rcS has UTC=no in it, and
that TZ is not set anywhere in the /etc/init.d/hwclock* scripts.  Look at
what the system says while booting up, it will output the system time twice
(one for hwclockfirst.sh, the other for hwclock.sh).  They must make sense
(also pay attention to the timezone it reports).

> I've noticed that when I have the system set for local time it reports a time that is really GMT.

"date -u" will tell you what the system thinks is the UTC time. If the
output is different from plain "date", then it certainly thinks it is in
some timezone.

> Everything worked fine until the last time I updated (debian/testing).

The current bugs in util-linux should not matter much if /usr is in the same
partition as /, so we will need a bit more info to help you.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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