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

[Norbert Preining]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> No hardware clock on UTC either.  One last thing to check.  What is
> the output from 'ls -l /dev/rtc; lsmod|grep rtc'?

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-08-24 21:51 /dev/rtc -> rtc0

$ ls -l /dev/rtc0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 254, 0 2009-08-24 21:51 /dev/rtc0

no module, but self compiled kernel

$ grep RTC /boot/config-2.6.31-rc7 | grep ^CONFIG
CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y
CONFIG_RTC_LIB=y
CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=y
CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS=y
CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE="rtc0"
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_PROC=y
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_DEV=y
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_RS5C372=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS=y
$

> I suspect your machine boot so fast that the system clock is not yet
> set from the hardware clock (which is done using a udev hook in
> util-linux when udev is enabled) when the checkroot.sh script is
> running.  You can test this hypotesis by disabling the hwclock udev
> rule and comment out the test for /dev/.udev in hwclockfirst.sh.  If

What should then happen?

Best wishes

Norbert

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