System date resetting when rebooting (FC4)
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Jun 20 14:52:42 UTC 2006
Stéphane Bruno wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
>
>> man hwclock
>>
>> hwclock is what I used in the past.
>>
>> Can also be used to test if talking to the hardware clock.
>
>
> I tried to use hwclock to set the hardware clock to the system time,
> here's the error I receive:
>
> "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out"
>
> It is the same error I receive when booting and shutting down, when the
> system tries to synchronize the hardware clock to the current date.
>
> I repeat that this is happening to three Pentium 4 DELL PowerEdge
> servers (two different models, tower and rackmount)
>
> Please. help
>
> Stéphane
>
At least to me, this confirms that the kernel is not able to talk to the
rtc. I would be looking at BIOS settings. This is beyond my experiences.
A quick search showed that this problem isn't only in Fedora but Debian
as well. One suggestion was to turn acpi=off.
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Robin Laing
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