[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#543375: initscripts: "last superblock write time in future" occurring sometimes

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Petter,

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Can you provide the output from these commands:

Sure:

> ls -ld /etc/localtime /dev/.udev
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root  140 2009-08-24 19:53 /dev/.udev
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2211 2009-08-21 16:53 /etc/localtime

> grep ^UTC /etc/default/rcS

UTC=no

> ls /etc/rcS.d

README		      S26cryptdisks-early	S40networking
S02hostname.sh	      S26cryptmount-early	S40pcmciautils
S02mountkernfs.sh     S28cryptdisks		S45mountnfs.sh
S02readahead	      S30checkfs.sh		S46mountnfs-bootclean.sh
S03udev		      S30etc-setserial		S46setserial
S04mountdevsubfs.sh   S30procps			S47lm-sensors
S05bootlogd	      S31hibernate		S48console-screen.sh
S05keymap.sh	      S34fuse			S49console-setup
S06keyboard-setup     S35mountall.sh		S50alsa-utils
S07hdparm	      S36mountall-bootclean.sh	S55bootmisc.sh
S08hwclockfirst.sh    S36udev-mtab		S55urandom
S10checkroot.sh       S37mountoverflowtmp	S70x11-common
S11hwclock.sh	      S38pppd-dns		S75policykit
S12mtab.sh	      S38resolvconf		S75sudo
S18ifupdown-clean     S39ifupdown		S80microcode.ctl
S20module-init-tools  S39readahead-desktop	S99stop-bootlogd-single

> df -hP

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3             196G  173G   14G  93% /
tmpfs                 2.0G  8.0K  2.0G   1% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M  168K  9.9M   2% /dev
tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2              81G   72G  8.2G  90% /xp

> The problem will happen when HW clock is not on UTC and /usr/ is a
> separate partition from /.

No separate partition here.

> As far as I know, this problem have existed since forever, so I am
> more surprised you see it just now. :) It is believed to be fixed

Ha, maybe I didn't have any crashed for such a long time ... haha, just
joking, two defective hard discs in 6 months in my brand new sony laptop.

Hope the above output helps, if not let me know what else I can do.

Best wishes

Norbert

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