Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Till Maas
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 03:23:24PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: For majority of ro-at-boot setups, changing to rw would be the best and the simplest solution. I don't think we should do that automatically (e.g. through rpm macro), but instead encourage people to switch

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 12:00:31PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 03:23:24PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: For majority of ro-at-boot setups, changing to rw would be the best and the simplest solution. I don't think we should do that automatically (e.g.

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Kamil Paral
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201979 is about systemd being stupid and rerunning root fsck, which sometimes triggered the first issue. I just posted a patch upstream: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-May/031445.html Well, note that this one is

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.05.2015 um 17:00 schrieb Kamil Paral: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201979 is about systemd being stupid and rerunning root fsck, which sometimes triggered the first issue. I just posted a patch upstream:

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 04.05.15 13:24, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbys...@in.waw.pl) wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 12:00:31PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 03:23:24PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: For majority of ro-at-boot setups, changing to rw would be the best and

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Kamil Paral
UEFI doesn't solve anything with the rtc-in-local stuff windows is doing there. Sorry for being slow, but could you please explain this a bit more? I don't want to nitpick this to death (I've just set Windows to use UTC and it seems to work great), but I'm really interested in learning why

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-04 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 13:24 +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 12:00:31PM +0200, Till Maas wrote: On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 03:23:24PM +, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski -Szmek wrote: For majority of ro-at-boot setups, changing to rw would be the best and the

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-03 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sat, 02.05.15 18:03, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbys...@in.waw.pl) wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 02:21:48PM +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 28 April 2015 at 13:40, Kamil Paral kpa...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Time in UTC is

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-03 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 03:55:38PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sat, 02.05.15 18:03, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbys...@in.waw.pl) wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 02:21:48PM +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 28 April 2015 at 13:40, Kamil Paral kpa...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun,

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-02 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 02:21:48PM +0200, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 28 April 2015 at 13:40, Kamil Paral kpa...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, No, it's not. This

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-01 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/30/2015 06:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: I'd prefer objective analysis over anecdata. poettering's contention is : i) there is only a problem if you have time-based fsck enabled ii) this is not the default In addition, it's only going to be a problem when fsck is run during early boot,

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-01 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 5/1/15 2:18 AM, Till Maas wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:11:20PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: What doesn't work is rtc-in-local in early-boot, that's all. And that doesn't matter really, except if you are crazy enough to manually enable time-based fsck in ext234, which has been turned

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-01 Thread Till Maas
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:11:20PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: What doesn't work is rtc-in-local in early-boot, that's all. And that doesn't matter really, except if you are crazy enough to manually enable time-based fsck in ext234, which has been turned off by default in fedora since time

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-01 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 01.05.2015 um 09:18 schrieb Till Maas: On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:11:20PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: What doesn't work is rtc-in-local in early-boot, that's all. And that doesn't matter really, except if you are crazy enough to manually enable time-based fsck in ext234, which has been

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-01 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2015-05-01 at 11:20 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 05/01/2015 02:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 19:45 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 16:37 (UTC-0700): I'd prefer objective analysis over anecdata. poettering's

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-05-01 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 05/01/2015 02:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 19:45 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 16:37 (UTC-0700): I'd prefer objective analysis over anecdata. poettering's contention is : i) there is only a problem if you have time-based fsck

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Andrew Lutomirski
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Adam Williamson adamw...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 19:45 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 16:37 (UTC-0700): I'd prefer objective analysis over anecdata. poettering's contention is : i) there is only a

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Felix Miata
Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 17:11 (UTC-0700): He never mentioned what time-based fsck is that I saw, What doesn't work is rtc-in-local in early-boot, that's all. And that doesn't matter really, except if you are crazy enough to manually enable time-based fsck in ext234, which has

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 4/30/15 7:58 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:22:20PM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: Maximum mount count: 21 Last checked: Mon Apr 6 10:42:37 2015 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) The default is definely now 0, but you're right, if

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Eric Sandeen
On 4/30/15 7:35 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 17:11 (UTC-0700): He never mentioned what time-based fsck is that I saw, What doesn't work is rtc-in-local in early-boot, that's all. And that doesn't matter really, except if you are crazy enough to manually

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Matthew Miller
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:22:20PM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: Maximum mount count: 21 Last checked: Mon Apr 6 10:42:37 2015 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) The default is definely now 0, but you're right, if you've upgraded for a long time, it won't be

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Eric Sandeen sand...@redhat.com said: Time-based check is ext234's (old default) behavior of forcing a full fsck just because X days or Y mounts have gone by. Yeah, but since the early days of defaulting to ext3, Red Hat Linux (and so Fedora after that) disabled that on

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 19:45 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 16:37 (UTC-0700): I'd prefer objective analysis over anecdata. poettering's contention is : i) there is only a problem if you have time-based fsck enabled ii) this is not the default

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Felix Miata
Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 15:49 (UTC-0700): We seem to have two sides saying two fundamentally different things here: one claiming that all Windows/Fedora multiboot systems (that haven't had the hardware clock set to UTC and Windows adjusted to know about that) are doing fsck on

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 18:46 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 29.04.15 11:48, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov ) wrote: I agree that it's not possible to make this work under every circumstance, but a compromise existed that worked well enough so that most people

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 19:13 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 15:49 (UTC-0700): We seem to have two sides saying two fundamentally different things here: one claiming that all Windows/Fedora multiboot systems (that haven't had the hardware clock set to UTC

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-30 Thread Felix Miata
Adam Williamson composed on 2015-04-30 16:37 (UTC-0700): I'd prefer objective analysis over anecdata. poettering's contention is : i) there is only a problem if you have time-based fsck enabled ii) this is not the default your anecdote does not provide enough information to prove or

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-29 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/28/2015 03:52 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: And no, this *never* worked fully on Linux, and it never will, sorry. But it worked sufficentily most of the time ... ever since! The current situation means, - Fedora does not support multiboot'ing at all, - Fedora is preferring to be

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-29 Thread Przemek Klosowski
On 04/29/2015 11:14 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: On Wed, 29.04.15 16:46, Lubomir Rintel (lkund...@v3.sk) wrote: On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 14:00 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 04/28/2015 03:52 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: And no, this *never* worked fully on Linux, and it never will, sorry.

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-29 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 29.04.15 11:48, Przemek Klosowski (przemek.klosow...@nist.gov) wrote: I agree that it's not possible to make this work under every circumstance, but a compromise existed that worked well enough so that most people were not complaining. I propose that a system that possibly hiccups

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-29 Thread Lubomir Rintel
On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 14:00 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 04/28/2015 03:52 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: And no, this *never* worked fully on Linux, and it never will, sorry. But it worked sufficentily most of the time ... ever since! The current situation means, - Fedora does not

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-29 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 29.04.15 16:46, Lubomir Rintel (lkund...@v3.sk) wrote: On Wed, 2015-04-29 at 14:00 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: On 04/28/2015 03:52 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: And no, this *never* worked fully on Linux, and it never will, sorry. But it worked sufficentily most of the

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-28 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 28 April 2015 at 13:40, Kamil Paral kpa...@redhat.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, No, it's not. This has been written about many times, but in short: - the information

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-28 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 28.04.15 14:50, Michael Schwendt (mschwe...@gmail.com) wrote: On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 05:14:27 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Why does this bug exist only in Fedora, not in openSUSE or Mageia or *buntu? All my systems are multiboot, so only a select very few are on UTC. None that are

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-28 Thread Kamil Paral
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, No, it's not. This has been written about many times, but in short: - the information about the timezone used is not stored in RTC, so all users of RTC

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-28 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 April 2015 at 21:36, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Simon Farnsworth si...@farnz.org.uk wrote: Windows doesn't work fine with RTC in local time, unless you have one and only one Windows install on the system. If you (say) dual-boot Windows

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-28 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 24 Apr 2015 05:14:27 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Why does this bug exist only in Fedora, not in openSUSE or Mageia or *buntu? All my systems are multiboot, so only a select very few are on UTC. None that are on UTC have Fedora installed. This means every Fedora boot takes about twice as

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-28 Thread Simon Farnsworth
On Monday 27 April 2015 14:36:53 Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Simon Farnsworth si...@farnz.org.uk wrote: Windows doesn't work fine with RTC in local time, unless you have one and only one Windows install on the system. If you (say) dual-boot Windows 95 and Windows

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-28 Thread Felix Miata
Simon Farnsworth composed on 2015-04-28 10:00 (UTC+0100): Same issues happened on the machines that triple-booted Windows 95, 98 and Me, only worse as they got adjusted three times on DST change, not just twice. I learned early on how to avoid that. Just tell Windows there is no DST to adjust

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Simon Farnsworth si...@farnz.org.uk wrote: Windows doesn't work fine with RTC in local time, unless you have one and only one Windows install on the system. If you (say) dual-boot Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 (I've done this in a work environment), and boot

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 April 2015 at 06:47, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, so if Windows is going to get berated for not dealing with UTC properly, then Fedora can be berated for not dealing with local time properly. Not

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/27/2015 09:34 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 27 April 2015 at 06:47, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, so if Windows is going to get berated for not dealing with UTC properly, then Fedora can be berated for not

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-27 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, No, it's not. This has been written about many times, but in short: - the information about the timezone used is not stored in RTC, so all users of RTC need to

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-27 Thread Ian Malone
On 27 April 2015 at 09:54, Ralf Corsepius rc040...@freenet.de wrote: On 04/27/2015 09:34 AM, Ian Malone wrote: On 27 April 2015 at 06:47, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, so if Windows is going to get berated

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/27/2015 06:39 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, No, it's not. This has been

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-27 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 04/27/2015 06:52 PM, Simon Farnsworth wrote: Come to that, how is Linux supposed to find and read the registry, It doesn't have to. Just do it as it had been done in Linux for ages: Let the user set a configuration item RTC runs in local time Y/N. Ralf -- devel mailing list

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-27 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, No, it's not. This has been written about many times, but in short: None

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-27 Thread Simon Farnsworth
On Monday 27 April 2015 10:39:40 Chris Murphy wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:47:18PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: Time in UTC is just as absurd and arbitrary as time in a local timezone, No, it's not.

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-26 Thread Chris Murphy
There's no point in this being ideological, Fedora should tolerate the RTC being in local time. Since the dawn of Windows, it's behaved very consistently with respect to RTC time being local time. This is even acknowledged in the UEFI spec as well, which permits local time plus timezone plus

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-24 Thread Andre Robatino
Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net writes: Just as a workaround, you CAN make a Windows box use UTC for the RTC... Multiboot is not a universe limited to Windows and Linux, and certainly not only the latest version of either. And, there's a whole LAN to consider, not one PC in isolation.

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-24 Thread Felix Miata
Andre Robatino composed on 2015-04-25 00:25 (UTC): Felix Miata composed: Just as a workaround, you CAN make a Windows box use UTC for the RTC... Multiboot is not a universe limited to Windows and Linux, and certainly not only the latest version of either. And, there's a whole LAN to

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-24 Thread Andre Robatino
Andre Robatino robatino at fedoraproject.org writes: it looks like OS/2 is capable of keeping its RTC in TAI (which AIUI is basically the same as UTC except that TAI doesn't have leap seconds, so TAI is real time, and UTC is TAI interspersed with leap seconds, so both increase monotonically,

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-24 Thread Felix Miata
Andre Robatino composed on 2015-04-25 01:55 (UTC): The only reason Linux or any other OS needs to support having the RTC on local time for now is as a workaround to coexist with broken Windows. Not investing resources in disturbing sleeping dogs is a reason that is always important to some

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-24 Thread Andre Robatino
Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net writes: AFAIK, Windows is the only OS that has trouble using UTC for the RTC. Have you ever used DOS or OS/2? I don't remember ever seeing options at installation time to choose anything other than local in either one. Same for W95, W98, WXP W7. How

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-24 Thread Andre Robatino
Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net writes: Why does this bug exist only in Fedora, not in openSUSE or Mageia or *buntu? All my systems are multiboot, so only a select very few are on UTC. None that are on UTC have Fedora installed. This means every Fedora boot takes about twice as long or

Re: [Bug 1201978] dracut assumes BIOS time is UTC closed without fixing again

2015-04-24 Thread Felix Miata
Andre Robatino composed on 2015-04-24 19:44 (UTC): Felix Miata wrote: Why does this bug exist only in Fedora, not in openSUSE or Mageia or *buntu? All my systems are multiboot, so only a select very few are on UTC. None that are on UTC have Fedora installed. This means every Fedora boot