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FS#6425 - Clock lost 2 minutes every bootup

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Andrea Cimitan (Cimi) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 16:11 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 09 February 2008, 15:54 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hi, I've a problem with my clock, set to GMT.
Everytime i switch on my machine it lost 2 minutes. I never had that issue in the last year.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Saturday, 09 February 2008, 15:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  no response to the last comment - either fixed by changes in initscripts, or a weird hardware issue.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 18:27 GMT
Hm, this might be due to changes with setting system clock in new initscripts.
In your case the problem might be that your clock has some noticeable time drift.
How often do you switch on/off your machine?
Comment by Andrea Cimitan (Cimi) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 19:06 GMT
Once a day.
Anyway it happens only at the startup. No drift when pc is up, even if it is up for weeks...
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 19:16 GMT
I think time doesn't drifts on running PC because even if you don't have ntp there is the special 11-minutes feature in kernel when it updates drifting clock. See man hwclock for more details.
Comment by Andrea Cimitan (Cimi) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 19:27 GMT
no because i tryed to update clock with rdate and to write with hwclock.
Then reboot... at the reboot 2 minutes less... always 2 minutes...
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 19:29 GMT
Hmm, I am investingating some time issues this week. Will check for your issue on my machines too.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 19:30 GMT
btw, what is in your /var/lib/hwclock/adjust ?
Comment by Andrea Cimitan (Cimi) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 19:59 GMT
[cimi@hydra ~]$ cat /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime
-2.208370 1171501139 0.000000
1171501139
UTC
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 15 February 2007, 22:18 GMT
Try to remove that file and reboot. Report back if after reboot your machine didn't lost 2 minutes.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 03 March 2007, 19:37 GMT
Status?
Comment by Andrea Cimitan (Cimi) - Saturday, 03 March 2007, 21:50 GMT
I've done your fix and it worked, but then the problem represented... I'm seeing if your solution is always OK...
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 11 January 2008, 13:40 GMT
does it work out of the box with the latest initscripts?

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