Philip Rowlands schrieb: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Clemens Koller wrote: > >> As already mentioned, my problem is that I cannot set the date >> reliably, working on glibc-2.7 and coreutils-6.9 (including the >> futimens patch). I did some more tests (the commands have been entered >> one by one... only some second(s) in between): >> >> Right after power-up, login: >> [stuff deleted] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date -u 111214492007.00 >> Mon Nov 12 14:49:00 UTC 2007 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date >> Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 CET 1970 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date >> Mon Nov 12 15:49:03 CET 2007 <<< working from here!! > > Well, that's odd. > >> >> It seems more kernel / glibc related to me, now. And I will have to >> first understand the expected behaviour of the kernel. (But note: the >> kernel didn't change in between my toolchain upgrade, so it was >> working before with the old glibc-2.3.5, same coreutils... ????) > > It certainly sounds like a problem with the kernel/RTC interaction. I > don't know the history of glibc changes with regard to time functions.
Okay, I moved to a newer kernel (and from ARCH=ppc to ARCH=powerpc) and the problem disappeared! :-) Thank you, Phil and sorry for the noise here. Regards, Clemens Koller __________________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Straße 45/1 Linhof Werksgelände D-81379 München Tel.089-741518-50 Fax 089-741518-19 http://www.anagramm-technology.com _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
