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Bug 55683

Summary:	hwclock needs --directisa on ASUS motherboards.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Idcmp <redhat>
Component:	util-linux	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2
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Hardware:	i386
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Description Idcmp 2001-11-04 21:42:46 UTC

There's a known (on the net) issue with hwclock accessing /dev/rtc causing
hangs on ASUS motherboards (A7V133 in this case).  To get around this,
CLOCKFLAGS needs --directisa added to it for those motherboards.  hwclock
is called both in /etc/rc.d/sysinit and /etc/rc0.d/S01halt ..     Without
it, the system will seemingly hang on startup or shutdown for no reason..

I've logged this against util-linux as that's where hwclock is from, but
this may be an issue with /dev/rtc in the kernel..

Comment 1 Elliot Lee 2002-01-04 19:58:03 UTC

There's no way to reasonably know that this flag needs adding... I will ask the
kernel people if this is a problem of theirs (which I would guess it is) -
otherwise, you are probably stuck with just editing initscripts manually :(

Comment 2 Eric Malouin 2002-02-28 04:21:36 UTC

I had the same problem.  It occurred every time I did a normal shutdown (not
reboot).

To fix it, I replaced hwclock with the latest version and it seem to fix the
problem...

I am now using hwclock 2.15  and I don't have this problem anymore...

Comment 3 Elliot Lee 2002-03-27 15:40:14 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34374 ***