On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:58:46PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:24:07AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > The following patch will be in the next release of e2fsprogs. If > > you'd like to apply it and rebuild it, it will provide the proof you > > need that either your laptop RTC clock is bad or there's something > > strange going on with the system time on your laptop. > > Okay, so I rebuilt e2fsprogs with that patch and let my laptop run out > of battery power. This is the output: > > Checking root file system...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16 > /dev/sda3: Superblock last write time (Mon Aug 10 01:39:53 2009, > now = Sun Aug 9 23:39:58 2009) is in the future. > > I'm in UTC+2; since there is a time difference of approximately two > hours (modulo a few seconds -- it certainly took me more than five > seconds to find the power cord and boot the system again), I guess that > makes it clear that something somewhere is confused about timezones.
This also makes it clear why Ted (being on a negative UTC offset) doesn't see this: His timestamp is always in the past, not in the future as ours. Additionally, this check is a severe nuisance for me. I frequently hack around with rescue systems and do not bother with time zones while just fixing a single file. Therefore, I expect that all times may be two hours late or fast after such an operation, and having a head- and consoleless system hang on boot just because of such an issue is a grave issue. I think that this timestamp check is too picky and should be removed completely or relaxed in a way that it does only return a non-zero exit code if the difference is more than could be explained by a timezone issue. Additionally, a "bad RTC" should not be a showstopper for running Linux. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
