On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:32:19AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:43:04AM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > > > > Tested on Dell GX280, ICH6 instead of ICH5; your workaround seems to work: > > > > framboos:~# hwclock --show > > Tue 21 Dec 2004 03:05:02 AM CET -0.672601 seconds > > framboos:~# hwclock-2.12 --show > > select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out > > framboos:~# > > Okay, that is the easy part :-) > > Does the workaround allow reboot without "apci=off" > and without pressing Control-C ?
That worked already, util-linux-2.12h has working timeout on rtc failures. In d-i rc2 the hang is gone, so the only motivation for the workaround would be to create a working hwclock. Just tested reboot: as expected the timeout error is gone now. Regards, Erik