Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-08 Thread Z F
The problem is that the newest version of e2fsprogs fixed some problems which revealed new ones. It has to do with the fact that the local time is set after the disk is mounted. So if you clock is not on UT, you are in trouble. Thre possibilities to fix: 1. downgrade e2fsprogs (and e2fslibs) 2.

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-07 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:20:52 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: date -u will tell you what the system thinks is the UTC time. If the output is different from plain date, then it certainly thinks it is in some timezone. I'm also running testing. I've noted that 'date'

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006, David E. Fox wrote: 'date -u' is correct (UTC), dates are set coorectly in the filesystem for instance but the log entries are in UTC. That doesn't match the behavior in sarge. It doesn't match the behaviour in my sid system either (where it logs in local time). It is

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-06 Thread Ray Lanza
Is using UTC the last word for this problem? I must dual-boot with windows on my machine. My linux configuration is relatively simple with everything on a single partition. Time zone is set properly, is not a symbolic link and is in the same filesystem as root. I've noticed that when I have

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Ray Lanza wrote: Is using UTC the last word for this problem? I must dual-boot with windows on my machine. No, of course not. It is the _easiest_ fix. It is becoming aparent that we can do a much better fix in glibc, but I need to investigate more. And there is always

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-06 Thread Kent West
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Ray Lanza wrote: Is using UTC the last word for this problem? I must dual-boot with windows on my machine. No, of course not. It is the _easiest_ fix. It is becoming aparent that we can do a much better fix in glibc, but I

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006, Kent West wrote: [ root fsck problem caused by time skew ] It seems like I had this on a newly-installed Sid box the other day. After I installed ntpdate the problem went away (but I was fighting several problems at once, so no guarantees that this had any relevance). I

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I submitted a bug against e2fsprogs a couple weeks ago due to similar issues on boot up. the developer got right on it and apparently fixed it. Something to do with when debian sets the system clock as it relates to the fsck portion of boot.

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Lei Kong wrote: hardware clock store UTC time (UTF=yes in /etc/default/rcS). Now, my question is, any drawback in doing so? besides possbile windows problem on a dual boot machine and confusion when looking at bios. None whatsoever, other than now your system is that

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:59:24 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I submitted a bug against e2fsprogs a couple weeks ago due to similar issues on boot up. the developer got right on it and apparently fixed it. Something

Re: Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-04 Thread Lei Kong
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the newest version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2fsprogs is mistaken or whether there really is a problem. How would I go about checking this? Short and to the

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Lei Kong wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the newest version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2fsprogs is mistaken or whether there really is a problem. How would I go

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:28:15 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Lei Kong wrote: On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the newest version checks for this, so I

Re: Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-04 Thread Lei Kong
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the newest version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2fsprogs is mistaken or whether there really is a problem. How would I go about checking this?

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006, Brandon Simmons wrote: boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the newest version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2fsprogs is mistaken or whether there really is a problem. How would I go about checking this? Short and to the point:

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-03 Thread John Fry
Brandon Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After upgrading my system to 'testing', on bootup I am getting the error above after checking root filesystem...; it then forces a reboot and fsck on the next boot. FWIW I found the error went away once I ran 'fsck -y' (more specifically, when I set