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From: William Tomlinson <watomlinson@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:21:51
Message-Id: CAPSFA=+YpUiM5CdevEVKna_PHfB6eAX-a_Jp4zUr4Pc9PZZmnA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow by Stroller
1 I've had this problem before as well and can confirm that adding NTP to the
2 default run level solved it.
3 On Jan 17, 2013 10:08 AM, "Stroller" <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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6 > On 16 January 2013, at 16:43, Grant Edwards wrote:
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8 > > I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard
9 > > clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is
10 > > set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init
11 > > system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in
12 > > the future.
13 >
14 > You've had lots of other suggestions here, but I think this is handled
15 > fine if you add ntp to the default runlevel (and assuming the system can
16 > connect to the net).
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18 > Stroller.
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