[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#780364: Bug#780364: The problem disappeared, when I removed /etc/adjtime file and rebooted

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2015, wzabolot at elektron.elka.pw.edu.pl wrote:
> I have deleted the /etc/adjtime in the affected machine and rebooted it.
> After that it boots correctly, without a delay caused by the "future
> superblock write time".
> However I don't understand what was the real cause of the problem...

/etc/adjtime has two relevant fields.  One tells whether the RTC is in UTC
or local time, and the other has its systematic drift.

Both can, if wrong, result in some system tools changing the system time
backwards if they're called during boot.

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