[fedora-arm] no battery backed hwclock and fsck

[Robert Nelson]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Stefano Cavallari
<stefano at cavallari.cjb.net> wrote:
> I run Fedora 12 on a IGEPv2.
> If I set fstab correctly, whenever I power-cycle the board, fsck complains:
>
> Checking all file systems.
> [/sbin/fsck.ext2 (1) -- /] fsck.ext2 -a /dev/mmcblk0p2
> /dev/mmcblk0p2: Superblock last mount time (Thu Mar 11 18:17:21 2010,
>        now = Sat Jan  1 01:00:04 2000) is in the future.
>
>
> /dev/mmcblk0p2: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>        (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> [FAILED]
>
> *** An error occurred during the file system check.
> *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> *** when you leave the shell.
> Give root password for maintenance
> (or type Control-D to continue):
>
> this is fixed in newest e2fsprog:
> - Add new e2fsck.conf configuration option, default/broken_system_clock to
> support systems with broken CMOS hardware clocks.
>

Here's a workaround i've been using with the beagle, till the fixed
e2fsprog hits most disti's..

http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu#Karmic

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/