Package: chrony
Version: 1.20-6
Followup-For: Bug #294030
Note that I came to the same rtc vs. genrtc conclusion independently, so
it seems chrony+genrtc is indeed the culprit here.
You can solve your problem by creating /etc/modprobe.d/local (for
example) and putting
alias char-major-10-135 rtc
as a line in that file.
I believe this is actually a bug in modutils. Note how
/etc/modutils/arch/i386 has that exact alias at the end. But
/etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 does not.
Hence, when modutils moved to the new system -- where instead of
generating /etc/modules.conf, it actually directly reads files in
/etc/modprobe.d -- it had no explicit alias for that device.
Instead, it falls back on the contents of
/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias
which contains *both* aliases for rtc and genrtc. Somehow, the genrtc
one takes precedence, unless you have your own entry in modprobe.d.
To the maintainer: This would appear to warrant bugs in both modutils
and possibly the kernel itself. Unless chrony's usage of the RTC is
considered atypical or improper, genrtc causing freezes seems like a
bug in itself.
Even without the bug in genrtc, though, using a software RTC instead
of hardware RTC, when a hardware RTC is generally universal to i386
system and was the default before, is (IMO) a bug in modutils too.
Note that I have also seen the occasional console message about
'genrtc: lost 3 jiffies' which helped alert me to the issue.
HTH.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages chrony depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libreadline4 4.3-15 GNU readline and history libraries
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