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SubjectRe: hware clock left bad after a system failure
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
[report of hwclock breakage trimmed]
>
> If your machine was being heavily swapped when the disk problems
> occurred, this __might__ explain the corruption. However, I would
> first check RAM, do not overclock, etc. It might be that bad
> RAM, in fact, is the reason for all your problems and you don't
> really have disk or driver problems at all.

I will now keep watching for q while quietly. Earlier today I had
another such hard lockup, identical errors claiming a disk failure.

This time I went into the BIOS on bootup and the clock was set
correctly. Good. Booted and it did the usual fscks but then dropped
into a shell when errors were found on /. I did the necessary fscks.

On a hunch I did 'date' and the clock was 11h ahead (we actually
are +11 now). So the problem is during the boot, not during the
crash. I consider that the boot thinks that I am running a UTC
hwclock and adjusts for this, when in fact I run a local time
hwclock. There must be something in the scripts that goes funny
if / does an fsck and then drops into the recovery shell.

I will start looking in this direction.

This is Debian Sarge in x86.

Thanks

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Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>
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