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.

-- 
Robin Laing




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