Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-18 Thread Stroller
On 17 January 2013, at 15:35, Bruce Hill wrote: You've had lots of other suggestions here, but I think this is handled fine if you add ntp to the default runlevel (and assuming the system can connect to the net). The service would be ntpd (daemon) or ntp-client (client), but not ntp.

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 January 2013, at 18:08, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-01-17, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:47:17 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: By default, ntpd doesn't seem to want to do a step correction to fix large clock errors on startup (there's probably an

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-18 Thread Paul Klos
Op vrijdag 18 januari 2013 18:47:31 schreef Stroller: On 18 January 2013, at 18:08, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2013-01-17, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:47:17 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: By default, ntpd doesn't seem to want to do a step

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-17 Thread Stroller
On 16 January 2013, at 16:43, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init system seems to panic because

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-17 Thread William Tomlinson
I've had this problem before as well and can confirm that adding NTP to the default run level solved it. On Jan 17, 2013 10:08 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 16 January 2013, at 16:43, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:06:23PM +, Stroller wrote: On 16 January 2013, at 16:43, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is set from the motherboard clock. If

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-17 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init system seems to panic

[gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in the future. Just to

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init system seems to panic

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:43:16 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is set from the motherboard clock. If that's slow, something in the init system seems to panic

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is set from

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:55:56PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: His system clock runs slow, it's not a matter of the CMOS battery being dead. If it were dead, the clock would be years off. Experience has shown that when the voltage gets low, this happens. Here's an article ... first hit:

Re: [gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:55:56PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: His system clock runs slow, it's not a matter of the CMOS battery being dead. If it were dead, the clock would be years off. Experience has shown