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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: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 09:35:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130117153528.GH2656@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DE5A75FE-4F10-471E-9E0F-9ABF2FD4B500@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:06:23PM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> 
> On 16 January 2013, at 16:43, 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.
> 
> You've had lots of other suggestions here, but I think this is handled fine if you add ntp to the default runlevel (and assuming the system can connect to the net).

The service would be ntpd (daemon) or ntp-client (client), but not ntp.

Still you should change your CMOS battery. ;)
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-17 15:35 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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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