On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
it is hwclock on my system. it belongs to sys-apps/openrc-0.4.2 which you may not be using.
