System date resetting when rebooting (FC4) (SOLVED)
Stéphane Bruno
sbruno at rddh.org.ht
Tue Jun 20 18:49:31 UTC 2006
Robin Laing wrote:
> Stéphane Bruno wrote:
>
>> Robin Laing wrote:
>>
>>> man hwclock
>>>
>>> hwclock is what I used in the past.
>>>
>>> Can also be used to test if talking to the hardware clock.
>>
>>
>>
>> I tried to use hwclock to set the hardware clock to the system time,
>> here's the error I receive:
>>
>> "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out"
>>
>> It is the same error I receive when booting and shutting down, when
>> the system tries to synchronize the hardware clock to the current date.
>>
>> I repeat that this is happening to three Pentium 4 DELL PowerEdge
>> servers (two different models, tower and rackmount)
>>
>> Please. help
>>
>> Stéphane
>>
>
> At least to me, this confirms that the kernel is not able to talk to
> the rtc. I would be looking at BIOS settings. This is beyond my
> experiences.
>
> A quick search showed that this problem isn't only in Fedora but
> Debian as well. One suggestion was to turn acpi=off.
>
I turned acpi off and it worked. Thanks !!!
Stéphane
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