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Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [support-gang] gray dots forever: when 12.1.0 13.1.0 never fully
boot (XO-1 especially? 11.3.1 too)
Hi
(1) If powerd fails when the clock is set to before the Unix epoch,
powerd is buggy, and this bug should be ticketed and fixed.
That bug is independent of the situation that causes the clock to get
set that way (which may well be another bug in another component, which
would deserve another
john wrote:
(1) If powerd fails when the clock is set to before the Unix epoch,
powerd is buggy, and this bug should be ticketed and fixed.
i agree. though i confess yesterday was the first time i'd ever
seen a negative number from date +%s. it kind of threw me.
ticket filed:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:05:18PM -0400, Paul Fox wrote:
it's likely that bad validation of RTC register values is to blame, though
that remains to be seen.
this has now been proven. rtc.c does no validation of the values, so
zero day of month and zero month values are being used in a struct
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Nancie Severs olpc.dri...@yahoo.com wrote:
I had it with a brand new blue high school XO-1.5 (that booted normally
before I flashed it to 12.1.0). I took that one to the Boston office
Richard Smith watched the boot and figured out the work around. Adam has it
