[gentoo-user] Boot message re: Future Revision date

[gentoo-user] Boot message re: Future Revision date

[Colleen Beamer]

Hi all,

Yesterday, I did a sync and upgraded my kernel.  Now, on boot, I'm
getting messages about a file in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d or
/etc.rc.conf having a revision date in the future.  Has anyone else seen
this message.  Is there a way to fix it.  I haven't made any recent
revision to rc.conf and the boot messages didn't appear prior to
yesterday.  And I've made no manual revisions to anything in /etc/init.d
or /etc.conf.d.

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot message re: Future Revision date

[Dale]

Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday, I did a sync and upgraded my kernel.  Now, on boot, I'm
> getting messages about a file in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d or
> /etc.rc.conf having a revision date in the future.  Has anyone else seen
> this message.  Is there a way to fix it.  I haven't made any recent
> revision to rc.conf and the boot messages didn't appear prior to
> yesterday.  And I've made no manual revisions to anything in /etc/init.d
> or /etc.conf.d.
>
> Regards,
>
> Colleen
>
>   


Is the date and time correct on your system?  I get that on one of my
old systems that the clock can't survive a reboot, therefore it thinks
it is back in the year 2000 or something.  If this is the case for you,
change the battery on the mobo and see if that helps.

Also, are you dual booting with windoze?  If you are, you have to adjust
it so that the two will not change the hardware clock when
booting/shutting down.  I don't dual boot so maybe someone else can
point you to that one.

Hope that helps.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot message re: Future Revision date

[Colleen Beamer]

Dale wrote:
> Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Yesterday, I did a sync and upgraded my kernel.  Now, on boot, I'm
>> getting messages about a file in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d or
>> /etc.rc.conf having a revision date in the future.  Has anyone else seen
>> this message.  Is there a way to fix it.  I haven't made any recent
>> revision to rc.conf and the boot messages didn't appear prior to
>> yesterday.  And I've made no manual revisions to anything in /etc/init.d
>> or /etc.conf.d.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Colleen
>>
>>   
> 
> 
> Is the date and time correct on your system?  I get that on one of my
> old systems that the clock can't survive a reboot, therefore it thinks
> it is back in the year 2000 or something.  If this is the case for you,
> change the battery on the mobo and see if that helps.

Yes,  There was an upgrade to ntp, but I configured ntp.conf and my
system time is perfect.  It was fine before I did all my upgrades
yesterday, so don't know what changed to make these messages appear today.
> 
> Also, are you dual booting with windoze?  If you are, you have to adjust
> it so that the two will not change the hardware clock when
> booting/shutting down.  I don't dual boot so maybe someone else can
> point you to that one.

Yes, I dual boot with Windoze.  However, I don't remember the last time
I booted into Windoze - ages ago and again, up until yesterday, I never
saw these messages.

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot message re: Future Revision date

[Uwe Thiem]

On 01 July 2007, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Colleen Beamer wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Yesterday, I did a sync and upgraded my kernel.  Now, on boot, I'm
> >> getting messages about a file in /etc/conf.d, /etc/init.d or
> >> /etc.rc.conf having a revision date in the future.  Has anyone else seen
> >> this message.  Is there a way to fix it.  I haven't made any recent
> >> revision to rc.conf and the boot messages didn't appear prior to
> >> yesterday.  And I've made no manual revisions to anything in /etc/init.d
> >> or /etc.conf.d.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Colleen
> >
> > Is the date and time correct on your system?  I get that on one of my
> > old systems that the clock can't survive a reboot, therefore it thinks
> > it is back in the year 2000 or something.  If this is the case for you,
> > change the battery on the mobo and see if that helps.
>
> Yes,  There was an upgrade to ntp, but I configured ntp.conf and my
> system time is perfect.  It was fine before I did all my upgrades
> yesterday, so don't know what changed to make these messages appear today.

If your clock is correct just "touch" the files in question.

Uwe

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot message re: Future Revision date

[Mick]

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On Sunday 01 July 2007 19:53, Colleen Beamer wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Colleen Beamer wrote:

> Yes, I dual boot with Windoze.  However, I don't remember the last time
> I booted into Windoze - ages ago and again, up until yesterday, I never
> saw these messages.

If you dual boot, it is recommended that you set your /etc/conf.d/clock to 
local, otherwise leave to UTC:
==========================================
# /etc/conf.d/clock

# Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as
# Greenwich Mean Time).  If your clock is set to the local time, then 
# set CLOCK to "local".  Note that if you dual boot with Windows, then 
# you should set it to "local".

CLOCK="UTC"
==========================================

HTH.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot message re: Future Revision date

[Dale]

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Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2007 19:53, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>   
>> Dale wrote:
>>     
>>> Colleen Beamer wrote:
>>>       
>
>   
>> Yes, I dual boot with Windoze.  However, I don't remember the last time
>> I booted into Windoze - ages ago and again, up until yesterday, I never
>> saw these messages.
>>     
>
> If you dual boot, it is recommended that you set your /etc/conf.d/clock to 
> local, otherwise leave to UTC:
> ==========================================
> # /etc/conf.d/clock
>
> # Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as
> # Greenwich Mean Time).  If your clock is set to the local time, then 
> # set CLOCK to "local".  Note that if you dual boot with Windows, then 
> # you should set it to "local".
>
> CLOCK="UTC"
> ==========================================
>
> HTH.
>   

That's the one.  I knew someone else would know what I was talking about.

Thanks for the post.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Boot message re: Future Revision date

[Colleen Beamer]

Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 01 July 2007 19:53, Colleen Beamer wrote:
>> Dale wrote:
>>> Colleen Beamer wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I dual boot with Windoze.  However, I don't remember the last time
>> I booted into Windoze - ages ago and again, up until yesterday, I never
>> saw these messages.
> 
> If you dual boot, it is recommended that you set your /etc/conf.d/clock to 
> local, otherwise leave to UTC:
> ==========================================
> # /etc/conf.d/clock
> 
> # Set CLOCK to "UTC" if your system clock is set to UTC (also known as
> # Greenwich Mean Time).  If your clock is set to the local time, then 
> # set CLOCK to "local".  Note that if you dual boot with Windows, then 
> # you should set it to "local".
> 
> CLOCK="UTC"
> ==========================================
> 
> HTH.

Well, /etc/conf.d/clock has *always* been set to UTC ever since I
started using Gentoo in 2004 and I've always dual booted with windows.
I never had these messages before.

However, I bow to the superior knowledge of the people on this list :-)
and I set CLOCK="local" and rebooted, I still had the messages.

ls -al shows dates that are all 2007 and prior or equal to today's date
or if not they specify a date in 2006 for all files in /etc/init.d,
/etc/conf.d and rc.conf.

Everything works, it's just that those messages are annoying.  What can
I say ... I'm anal about some things!  :-)

Something weird is definitely going on.

Regards,

Colleen

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