On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 07:55:58AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have noticed that sometimes I get this boot error: > > mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. > > Could someone tell what and how dengerous it is?
This is probably from hwclock, it will say this if your bios returns what appears to be an invalid time. (Until quite recently hwclock was rather strict about where the century byte should be -- more strict than the bios manufacturers.) Try running hwclock and see what happens. I've gotten this error on every original IBM machine I've tried -- both PS/2s and Valuepoints. I'm not sure why you would get this only 'sometimes' however, it should really be everytime. If it is hwclock (and I'm almost sure it is) -- the latest versions of util-linux in unstable have a fixed version of hwclock. The danger is minimal, an improperly patched hwclock could potentially screw up your BIOS checksum, but the Debian packaged versions shouldn't. -Kevin -- Kevin A. Foss ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
