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

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri May 1 09:20:35 UTC 2015


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"?

Ralf





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