Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.26, rtc problem

[Joshua D Doll <joshua.doll@gmail.com>]

Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> ======= On Friday 18 July 2008, Joshua D Doll wrote: =======
>   
>> Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
>>     
>>> ======= On Friday 18 July 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: =======
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Friday 18 July 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> After upgrading to 2.6.26 I have got a problem with starting hwclock
>>>>> service - it doesn't find /dev/rtc. I have tried to add rtc_cmos
>>>>> to /conf.d/modules, but the module loads after the service starting.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, questions are:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. How to force the module loading be before the service starting?
>>>>>           
>>>> I believe /etc/modules.d/* may do it. AFAIK it runs very early in the
>>>> init sequence
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Alan McKinnon
>>>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>>>>         
>>> If understand well, those files (in /etc/modules.d/) contain
>>> configuration options for modules rather a list of modules to load.
>>>
>>> The was /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file wich at some update
>>> point magically disappered. I think Gentoo developers suppose some
>>> replacement for this file.
>>>
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>       
>> I still have that file on one of my systems. My other system is running
>> openrc which does not have that file but it does have
>> /etc/conf.d/modules.
>>
>> --Joshua Doll
>>     
>
> 'hwclock' contains this fragment:
>
> 	ebegin "Setting system clock using the hardware clock [${utc}]"
> 	if [ -e /proc/modules -a ! -e /dev/rtc ]; then
> 		modprobe -q rtc || modprobe -q genrtc
> 	fi
>
> But there are no such modules at all :-) I have installed openrc since 
> april, but have got time-related problem only now.
>
>
> Andrew
>   
I was just letting you know where the file moved to for auto-loading 
modules. I'm not sure why hwclock isn't loading the module. You could 
try changing the modprobe -q to modprobe -v. To make the output verbose.

--Joshua Doll
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