On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 09:11 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: > Hi Rob, > > > I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e > > notebook this evening with not much luck. > > Snip... > > > I then rebooted again, and during the reboot the machine complained > > about not having a disk check for about 49,710 days. It ran through the > > disk check and rebooted, it then on the second reboot said exactly the > > same thing. > > It isn't the battery - I don't know what it is but it's much nastier > than a dead battery :-( > > Doing some simple maths :- > > 2 ^ 32 = 4294967296 > MAXINT = 4294967296 - 1 = 4294967295 > 4294967295 / 86400 = 49710.2696181 > > this is unlikely to be a battery problem. It looks as if some routine > is not reading the date correctly and it is returning either 0 or MAXINT. > For those that haven't clicked, 4294967295 is biggest number that can be > represented in a 32 bit word and 86400 is the number of seconds in a day. > Standard UTC uses the same 32 bits, that's why we have to worry about 2038 > (1970 + 49000 days). > > Quite what the actual problem is, I don't know but I wouldn't be looking > at changing batteries, I'd suspect some hardware incompatibility. > > Some numbers just ring funny :-) > > TTFN
Hi Honestly I've installed Ubuntu countless times, mostly servers. Since 7.04 i seem to get this every time! On different machines and VMs. I assumed this was just a "lazy" way of forcing a disk check after its been installed. So all i do is install, apt-get upgrade, reboot, reboot... and then all is fine after that... almost like a post install intentional mess that sorts itself out. Later, Michael -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
