Bug 636861 - halt fails due to hwclock failure
Summary: halt fails due to hwclock failure
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: initscripts
Version: 5.6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Lukáš Nykrýn
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Depends On: 598850
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-09-23 14:01 UTC by Andrew Jones
Modified: 2014-09-08 12:03 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: initscripts-8.45.44-1.el5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, some systems failed to access the hardware clock on system shutdown. This happened because the shutdown script ran the hwclock tool, which attempted to access the /dev/rtc device even if it did not exist. With this update, initscripts verifies if the /dev/rtc device exists before attempting to run the hwclock tool.
Clone Of: 598850
Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-09-30 21:59:15 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2013:1300 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE initscripts bug fix and enhancement update 2013-09-30 21:13:42 UTC

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-09-24 14:09:43 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 4 Harald Hoyer 2010-10-05 12:23:56 UTC 
So, a solution would be:

[ -x /sbin/hwclock -a -e /dev/rtc -a -e /sys/class/misc/rtc/dev ]  && action $"Syncing hardware clock to system time" /sbin/hwclock --systohc
Comment 7 RHEL Program Management 2011-06-20 22:08:49 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 and Red Hat does not plan to fix this issue the currently developed update.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.
Comment 8 RHEL Program Management 2012-01-09 14:09:28 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 and Red Hat does not plan to fix this issue the currently developed update.

Contact your manager or support representative in case you need to escalate this bug.
Comment 9 RHEL Program Management 2012-06-12 01:17:17 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 10 RHEL Program Management 2013-04-04 12:30:07 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2013-09-30 21:59:15 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-1300.html
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