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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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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