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and subject line uses new-style rtc and hpet emulation now
has caused the Debian Bug report #386226,
regarding linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp: Will not set clock and loses interrupts
when rtc is used
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp
Version: 2.6.16-18
Severity: important
During boot on my Etch machine (Dell PowerEdge 830 with an Intel Pentium D CPU
2.80GHz, kernel 2.6.16-2-686-smp), there is a message about select() timing out
on /dev/rtc. That message displays twice, a few more messages, then there is a
message about "trying to set the system clock again." I've looked through the
syslog and dmesg, and these messages are not in there. Or else I'd post the
exact messages. :)
Ah, a google search found the exact message for me:
select to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
But no solution.
That leads to this: When I start up VMWare server, I start getting these
messages in the syslog:
Sep 2 06:25:13 <hostname> kernel: rtc: lost some interrupts at 512Hz.
Sep 2 06:25:44 <hostname> last message repeated 1521 times
Sep 2 06:26:45 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:27:46 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:28:47 <hostname> last message repeated 3049 times
Sep 2 06:29:48 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:30:49 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:31:50 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:32:51 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:33:52 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:34:53 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:35:54 <hostname> last message repeated 3049 times
Sep 2 06:36:55 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:37:56 <hostname> last message repeated 3049 times
Sep 2 06:38:57 <hostname> last message repeated 3049 times
Sep 2 06:39:58 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:40:59 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:42:00 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:43:01 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
Sep 2 06:44:02 <hostname> last message repeated 3050 times
/proc/interrupts shows:
CPU0 CPU1
0: 3613286 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 12 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc
9: 1 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
12: 113 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 65 0 IO-APIC-edge ide0
50: 59827 0 IO-APIC-level libata, uhci_hcd:usb1, ehci_hcd:usb4
169: 56297 0 IO-APIC-level eth0
177: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb2
185: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd:usb3
NMI: 0 0
LOC: 3613227 3613226
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
Since VMWare is the only app at the moment that uses the RTC, during its
execution is the only time I get those error messages.
Someone on the VMWare Forum suggested adding 'nohpet' to the kernel boot
parameters, but that did not fix anything.
In another bug report (#283524) Laurent Bonnaud suggested trying the genrtc
module, but putting that in modules conf in place of rtc did not seem to fix
anything.
I also tried acpi=no on the kernel boot command line.
So far, nothing has helped.
More background here:
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=53727&tstart=50
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp depends on:
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.77b tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp recommends:
pn libc6-i686 <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.16-2-686-smp: true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.16-2-686-smp: true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/really-run-bootloader-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.16-2-686-smp: true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/initrd-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.16-2-686-smp: false
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
true
* linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
false
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.16-2-686-smp: true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
true
linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp/preinst/abort-install-2.6.16-2-686-smp:
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.6.26-1
Since 2.6.26 we only have new-style RTC and the HPET irq emulation
enabled. This should have fixed this.
Bastian
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constructive purpose.
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