Something Wicked (with my hdwr clock) This Way Comes
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Dec 28 12:50:39 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 15:18 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> : On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 01:36 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> : > As root, I just tried doing: `hwclock --show' for the first time on my
> : > new Dell Precision 490 running F7 and it just hung. Cntl-C broke me out.
> : >
> : > I then tried `hwclock --show --debug' and got:
> : >
> : > hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7
> : > Using /dev/rtc interface to clock.
> : > Last drift adjustment done at 1198717263 seconds after 1969
> : > Last calibration done at 1198717263 seconds after 1969
> : > Hardware clock is on UTC time
> : > Assuming hardware clock is kept in UTC time.
> : > Waiting for clock tick...
> : > /dev/rtc does not have interrupt functions.
> : > Waiting in loop for time from /dev/rtc to change
> :
> : Yout problem is (compared to my results) on the line /dev/rtc does not
> : have interrupt function.
> : The end of my output is as follows:
> :
> : --Hardware clock is on local time
> : Assuming hardware clock is kept in local time.
> : Waiting for clock tick...
> : ...got clock tick
> : Time read from Hardware Clock: 2007/12/27 08:00:14
> : Hw clock time : 2007/12/27 08:00:14 = 1198764014 seconds since 1969
> : Thu 27 Dec 2007 08:00:14 AM CST -0.605349 seconds
> :
> : I would then look at the characteristics of /dev/rtc for the answer.
> : On my machine:
> : [root at cyrus ~]# ls -l /dev/rtc
> : crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 135 2007-12-27 01:37 /dev/rtc
>
> On my system:
>
> [root at medulla ~]# ls -l /dev/rtc
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 10, 135 2007-12-26 17:04 /dev/rtc
>
> Would you post (or send me in private mail) the output of
> uname -r please?
>
> Mine:
>
> [root at medulla ~]# uname -r
> 2.6.23.8-34.fc7
Mine is:
2.6.23.8-34.fc7
So there the same.
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