I'm running Debian Sarge/powerpc with a kernel I compiled myself. I keep the hardware clock in UTC. For the first few weeks of using this setup, every time I started up the computer, Linux would have the wrong time, and I would have to manually correct the clock. It took me about an hour of investigation to figure out what the problem was.
As far as I can tell, the standard clock management system in Debian is for /etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh and /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh to run on startup and shutdown to sync the system clock and the hardware clock. Both of these scripts use the hwclock application, which doesn't work on my system unless I install the genrtc module. I'm considering submitting a bug report/feature request for util-linux saying that there should be documentation in /usr/share/doc/util-linux/ saying that Debian requires the RTC driver on powerpc in order for the clock to work as expected. I would probably include in the report a patch containing my attempt to add the documentation. Do I understand the situation correctly? Is this documented somewhere else that I overlooked? Is there a better way of solving this problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
