FS#8437 - initscripts: hwclock crashes under VirtualBox because of --directisa parameter

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ivan Todoroski (Grnch) - Saturday, 27 October 2007, 11:10 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 28 October 2007, 06:01 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

rc.sysinit and rc.shutdown invoke "hwclock --directisa" which crashes under VirtualBox (don't know about other virtual machines). The workaround is to add "rtc" to the list of startup modules, and remove this parameter from the scripts, but they of course get overwritten with each upgrade. In short, under VirtualBox the rtc access method is supported but directisa is not.

Reading the documentation, the --directisa parameter actually seems completely unnecessary, since hwclock will fall back to it anyway if the rtc module is not loaded. So, you can just remove --directisa and things will work the same on real hardware (since rtc is not loaded by default), yet VirtualBox users can simply enable rtc in rc.conf and hwclock will pick it up automatically.


Additional info:

initscripts 2007.11-2


Steps to reproduce:
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 06:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Saturday, 27 October 2007, 11:12 GMT
this one is such an old issue roman could you help me?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Sunday, 28 October 2007, 06:01 GMT
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7667

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