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On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:43:16 +0000 (UTC), 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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Change the motherboard battery? |
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Set clock_systohc="YES" in /etc/conf.d/hwclock |
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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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You can stop the console clearing by changing the first terminal line |
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in /etc/inittab to |
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c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Isn't 'Criminal Lawyer' rather redundant? |
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