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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-sparc@l.g.o
Cc: Jim Faulkner <jfaulkne@×××××××.edu>, Gentoo Release Engineering <releng@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-sparc] install-sparc64-minimal-20110829 init stops when setting system clock
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:22:18
Message-Id: 4E603DB5.3010603@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-sparc] install-sparc64-minimal-20110829 init stops when setting system clock by Jim Faulkner
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4 Hi.
5
6 On 02-09-2011 01:31, Jim Faulkner wrote:
7 > I'm trying to get my Sun Blade 100 going w/
8 > install-sparc64-minimal-20110829.iso but the init system gets stuck
9 > at "Setting the system clock using the hardware clock [UTC]".
10 >
11 > That's not to say the system locks up: I can type characters and
12 > they show up on the screen, but init doesn't let me proceed past the
13 > setting system clock script. The machine is definitely still
14 > working. I've waited 10 or 15 minutes but init won't give up on the
15 > "Setting the system clock" script.
16
17 Raúl (armin76) noticed this past week that the install-cds weren't
18 bringing up the login script. He tracked it down to an issue with the
19 livecd-tools ebuild and fixed it.
20 So we're sorry about this, but it should be fixed on the next run of the
21 auto-builds.
22
23 > Actually I can ctrl-c out of it the first time init tries to start
24 > the script, before runlevel 3. But as soon as it enters runlevel 3
25 > it tries to start the system clock script again and I'm unable to
26 > ctrl-c out of it.
27 >
28 > I see in my kernel messages before modules are loaded that the kernel
29 > successfully sets the system clock from the hardware clock:
30 > apparently install-sparc64-minimal-20110829.iso's kernel has
31 > CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS set. On my x86 systems /etc/conf.d/hwclock tells
32 > me "You do not need this if you are running a modern kernel with
33 > CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS set to y." Should setting the system clock from
34 > the hardware clock be enabled on the installcd at all?
35
36 - --
37 Regards,
38
39 Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
40 Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / KDE / Elections / RelEng
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