Bug 207935 - Hardware Clock not set on linux boot
Summary: Hardware Clock not set on linux boot
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 5.0
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-09-25 14:48 UTC by noye
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 5.1.8-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-09-25 17:39:35 UTC
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Description noye 2006-09-25 14:48:25 UTC
Description of problem:
On boot of Tiger linux server, hardware clock cannot be set.
Message is:

Cannot access the Hardware Clock in any known method.



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How reproducible:

At each linux restart.

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Additional info:

Problem seems to be located in /etc/rc.sysinit file where hardware clock 
is set before device creation (/sbin/start_udev step).
When hardware clock setting step is done after device creation, hwclock 
gives right time information.

No log found to describe the problem.


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