On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: >> Recently my AMD64 machine has started displaying this message at boot >> time. I don't know exactly when it started but I suspect it was when I >> started testing a new kernel that didn't have the RTC enabled when I >> was first testing it. >> >> Anyway, what's the process of fixing this. It says it's 'fixed' at >> boot time but booting again does the same thing. I've got >> e2fsprogs/e2fsck but I'm not sure if it can be used on a mounted drive >> and I figured it best to ask first. > > check /etc/conf.d/hwclock and see if clock_systohc="YES" or "NO". > > I think default is NO, so your computer loses track of time until NTP > syncs over net again.
I think it's /etc/conf.d/clock and mine has CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" Again, this is a relatively recent problem. Maybe a month ago it was fine, and then somewhere along the way it changed. I'm currently executing a 'shutdown -F -r now' command. It found the problem on the first partition, fixed it, rebooted, and that sector seems fixed. It's now working on the second sector. I'll have to see if that fixes all of them, and whether they stay fixed after a powerdown, etc. Thanks for the ideas. - Mark
