> My PS3 has been running YDL 5.0.2 continuously for about a week. I > tested the time + date, it was OK. So I rebooted it just to test the > time. The time + date is still OK. I am in Brisbane, Australia > timezone, so currently same time as you (+10 hours). > > Whenever faced with strange time problems like this, I always suggest > replacing the motherboard battery. 99% of the time that fixes things. > You didn't state what hardware you are running YDL on, so I can't > comment on motherboard issues.
The platform is a PS3 with BIOS updated two weeks ago before I installed YDL 5.0.2. The battery should still be fine and it's not that the clock resets or the local oscillator shuts down when I power down and would be relying on the battery. It's two days late ??!! I checked that the date is set by the KDE app (opened a terminal and typed "date") and it's correct. But on reboot the startup text after kboot and before the WM starts, shows the date being initialised incorrectly. I tried being in Brisbane in case there was something odd about the Sydney timezone config, but the problem stayed the same. I also tried setting the date two days AHEAD, but that didn't fix it either. I tried connecting to *any* of the ntp servers listed in the KDE Control Module and they all fail, and none of those correspond to the /etc/ntp.conf ones anyway. I don't have any confidence that NTP is starting. Possibly related, though I doubt it, is that I get a FATAL error at startup "GELIC_NET" (??something like that??), but the eth0 still seems to work fine. I haven't tried WiFi. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
