[Techtalk] hwclock problems

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:49:18AM +0000 or thereabouts, Dan wrote:
> I'm running Debian (Sarge). When I run the hwclock.sh startup script, it 
> just hangs: /sbin/hwclock never terminates. Since this script is called 
> on startup, I have to kill it manually using Ctrl+C or else the machine 
> never boots. However, when the machine boots, the system displays the 
> correct time. What's going on?

Caveat: I'm not familiar with debian.

hwclock is generally used at startup and shutdown to set the system clock
from the hardware clock or vice versa.  It's probably the case that the
clock gets set before hwclock fails to terminate.  What happens if you run
the hwclock command (extracted from the script) after you're booted?

Conor
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