Re: incorrect times displayed
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:46:21PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Doug writes:
> > I had this problem when I was running chrony which prevented rtc access.
>
> I'm running Chrony here (I'm the maintainer). It does not normally prevent
> rtc access. Did you file a bug report?
Yes, and I think we talked. If I told chrony to control the rtc it
would not _and_ it would block hwclock from writing to it on shutdown.
The 'answer' was to tell chrony to not try to touch the rtc. I had been
struggling with chrony enough (things like the 'online' command in the
ppp-up.d script returning 'no such source') that it was just easier to
use ntpd. The rtc thing on my new box was just the last straw and I
didn't have the left-over effort to work on bugs that for all I knew
only related to my (then) new hardware. The chrony docs said that the
rtc interface only worked with some hardware. The problem was that I
ended up with wildly inacurate clock info and chrony wouldn't get it
synced in the time I had online.
FYI its an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe AM2 mb with Athlon 3800+ running Etch
amd64.
ntpd now seems to sync relativly quickly so I'm not sure of the need for
chrony.
Thanks,
Doug.
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