[Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 1 19:17:18 UTC 2015


On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 11:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 05/01/2015 02:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 19:45 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > > Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 16:37 (UTC-0700):
> > > 
> > > > I'd prefer objective analysis over anecdata. poettering's
> > > > contention
> > > > is :
> > > 
> > > > i) there is only a problem if you have time-based fsck enabled
> > > > ii) this is not the default
> > > 
> > > > your anecdote does not provide enough information to prove or
> > > > disprove
> > > > his contention.
> > > 
> > > He never mentioned what time-based fsck is that I saw,
> > 
> > "What doesn't work is rtc-in-local in early-boot, that's all. And 
> > that
> > doesn't matter really, except if you are crazy enough to manually
> > enable time-based fsck in ext234, which has been turned off by 
> > default
> Wrong.
> 
> Even on f21, setting the "The sixth field" of the line referring to 
> "/" 
> (root) to "!= 0" in /etc/fstab is sufficient to provoke this bug in 
> "rtc-in-local" configuration.
> 
> May-be you (testing) should add a release blocking testsuite for 
> "rtc-in-local"?

As described, this does not constitute a release-blocking bug. We
already have a test for 'clean default install alongside Windows',
which is what the release criteria require to work.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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