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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Bruce Hill |
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<daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard |
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>> clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is |
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>> set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init |
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>> system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in |
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>> the future. |
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>> Just to make it extra convenient, it clears the console screen when |
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>> that happens so there's no actual record of what went wrong or which |
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>> component in th init process is failing. |
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>> Going into the BIOS setup and setting the time ahead a minute or two |
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>> will allow the system to start up normally. |
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>> Is there any way to disable this "feature"? |
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> Replace your CMOS battery. |
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His system clock runs slow, it's not a matter of the CMOS battery |
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being dead. If it were dead, the clock would be years off. |
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> Default behavior of agetty is to clear now. In /etc/inittab make sure you have |
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> --noclear in tty1 like this: |
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> # TERMINALS |
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> c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux |
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