From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:52:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130116175249.GE2656@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kd6lb4$fe3$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard
> clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is
> set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init
> system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in
> the future.
>
> Just to make it extra convenient, it clears the console screen when
> that happens so there's no actual record of what went wrong or which
> component in th init process is failing.
>
> Going into the BIOS setup and setting the time ahead a minute or two
> will allow the system to start up normally.
>
> Is there any way to disable this "feature"?
Replace your CMOS battery.
Default behavior of agetty is to clear now. In /etc/inittab make sure you have
--noclear in tty1 like this:
# TERMINALS
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux
Bruce
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-16 16:43 [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow Grant Edwards
2013-01-16 17:52 ` Bruce Hill [this message]
2013-01-16 17:55 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-16 18:04 ` Bruce Hill
2013-01-16 18:07 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-16 19:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-01-16 20:29 ` Paul Hartman
2013-01-16 20:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-17 20:35 ` Paul Hartman
2013-01-17 20:45 ` Bruce Hill
2013-01-17 22:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-16 20:42 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-01-17 16:10 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-01-17 17:27 ` Kevin Chadwick
2013-01-16 17:54 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2013-01-17 15:06 ` Stroller
2013-01-17 15:21 ` William Tomlinson
2013-01-17 15:35 ` Bruce Hill
2013-01-18 17:31 ` Stroller
2013-01-17 22:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-01-17 23:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-01-18 18:08 ` Grant Edwards
2013-01-18 18:47 ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2013-01-18 22:26 ` Paul Klos
2013-01-18 22:36 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2013-01-18 22:49 ` Grant Edwards
2013-01-19 5:04 ` William Kenworthy
2013-01-17 15:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Bruce Hill
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