Public bug reported:
Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
I installed tonight's batch of updates, at the end of which Ubuntu
requested a reboot.
Once I rebooted, received the familiar splash screen of Ubuntu. Once
the startup got to the "Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer Hald", I ran
into some trouble. I received the message "select() to /dev/rtc to wait
for clock tick times out"
Once I got into X, I got an internal error about Hald not being able to
start once I logged in.
I attempted to roll back to an earlier kernel (2.6.15-20-386). It
seemed to have the same behavior.
I loaded system rescue cd, and I noticed that after it booted, I was
able to run "date" and see the correct time. I'm assuming it fetched
this from the hardware clock, which seems to indicate that my hardware
clock is okay.
I googled around a bit, and I found some advice about setting
HWCLOCKPARS="-r --directisa" in /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh. Neither
this, nor settings it to "--directisa" seemed to help.
Thanks for any workaround you can offer as you research a bug fix.
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Hald won't start after latest updates
https://launchpad.net/bugs/43962
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