Bug 3458

Summary:	hwclock --adjust (ie. boot) hangs
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	jes.sorensen
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Jay Turner <jturner>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	srevivo
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	1999-06-14 16:58:26 UTC	Type:	---
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Description jes.sorensen 1999-06-14 16:35:35 UTC

If one by accident gets the system clock set to some time
far out in the future, boots the system (thus having
/sbin/hwclock --adjust run by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit), then
reboots and sets the clock back using the BIOS. After this
the system will hang at boot time when hwclock --adjust
tries to wait several years to catch up on the time.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 1999-06-14 16:58:59 UTC

And you expect the software to do what? :-)

------- Additional Comments From   06/14/99 13:07 -------
I expect it to detect that it is about to wait for ages and let the
user know, ideally it should print a warning message if it believes it
is about to wait for more than say 1 minute.

I can solve this kind of problem myself, but to be frank, I doubt that
the average user will be able to figure out what is wrong and fix it.
I am sure your support people will love trying to figure out the
problem if they get a customer calling on this one.