Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Monday 18 April 2005 07:34, Christian Perrier wrote: > > CC'ing util-linux maintainer(s) to get his/her/their advice as > > /etc/init.d/hwclock belong to this package. > > > > This is about d-i "2nd stage" (after the reboot) failing on Dell > > Dimension 8400 machines (a fairly common end user machine) as well as > > some other systems, because of hwclock call. > > > > Before I reassign part of this bug report to base-config and/or > > util-linux, more input is needed, though. > > Don't think this is necessary as the RTC problems on Dell systems is a > known issue [1] (which also has a workaround). The general consensus is > that this is a kernel issue, not something to be fixed in util-linux.
In general, no, and I agree about the kernel issue thing. But I'm a bit annoyed by us shipping sarge and have it "fail" (from the users point of view) on the most common end user system in Dell catalogue.... This is why I suggested considering the "--directisa" at least in sarge. If it does not harm, as suggested by hwclock man page, why not do it? I don't have the reference you mention above available to read now but from what I understand, the workaround is not really obvious to end users, am I wrong? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
