Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12r-12
Severity: grave
File: /sbin/hwclock
Justification: renders package unusable
Using manual command:
hwclock --show
waits a few seconds and fails with the message:
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
and so is the --hctosys command.
Etch kernel here is linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 version 2.6.17-9.
Booting the same hardware to sarge + 2.6.17 or 2.6.18 is fine and its
hwclock works as expected (so not a hardware bug).
I found this after tracking why I had a 1 hour time shift at boot. I
normally use Europe/Paris for my local time, but I had to work around this
bug by setting the system timezone to GMT (I hope this is temporary).
Playing manually with hwclock I also discovered --directisa, which when
added makes it work but I guess this is for debug only and should not be
used in production.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurs 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libslang 2.0.6-4 The S-Lang programming library - r
ii libuuid1 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.10.02+dfsg-2 universally unique id library
ii lsb-base 3.1-15 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
util-linux recommends no packages.
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Hope this helps,
Fabien.
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