[Techtalk] hwclock problems

Dan dan at cellectivity.com
Tue Mar 8 04:31:07 EST 2005


>>>>When I run the hwclock.sh
>>>>startup script, it just hangs: /sbin/hwclock never
>>>>terminates.
 >
> If your kernel is older, you could try hwclock --directisa 
> (see man page), i used it some time ago with broken 
> in-kernel ACPI. 

Wow, that fixed the problem. Thanks.

As for the age of the system:
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.8-2-686 (dilinger at toaster.hq.voxel.net) (gcc version 
3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-6)) #1 Mon Jan 24 03:58:38 EST 2005

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