FS#7667 - hwclock segfaults with kernel 2.6.22

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ray (ataraxia) - Wednesday, 25 July 2007, 13:41 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Monday, 30 July 2007, 17:54 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
After the 2.6.22 kernel upgrade, hwclock segfaults on every run unless using the /dev/rtc interface. Since rc.sysinit runs it with --directisa, loading the rtc module early isn't an effective workaround.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
kernel26 2.6.22.1-3
util-linux 2.12-12

Steps to reproduce:
Boot the machine and watch for segfault messages during rc.sysinit.
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Monday, 30 July 2007, 17:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 29 July 2007, 11:56 GMT
doesn't segfault here
Comment by Ray (ataraxia) - Sunday, 29 July 2007, 20:43 GMT
I upgraded another machine today and discovered that this problem appears to be specific to VMs running under VirtualBox. I don't know if that's something anyone else cares about enough to fix, though. If you want to close this, or keep it open, I won't argue either way.

I worked around it by lading the rtc module from the ramdisk and modifying rc.sysinit to use it.

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