On 02/15/2012 06:00 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Weird. Reproducible? Does Linus's "master" behave the same way? > Can you bisect?
argh. It looks like this is not the fault of the kernel, so i'm closing this ticket. I tried rolling back to 3.2.1-1 from snapshot.debian.net: linux-image-3.2.0-1-686-pae_3.2.1-1_i386.deb SHA1: fb5ca95149378def1b12d4c314af928ab4f8d180 and it turned out that this machine was having the same rtc problems after reboot to this older kernel (and on 3.1.8-2, which i tried as well). So something must have happened to my hardware that randomly coincided with my switching kernels :( I tried removing power and batteries from the machine, and booting to different kernels, and the rtc still failed. On my sixth reboot, i went into the BIOS setup, manually changed the time of the clock by a little bit, and chose "Exit and Save" (or whatever its moral equivalent is). That must have reset something in the hardware, because now (rebooting into 3.2.4-1) the rtc is back to working as normal. Apologies for the false alarm over what appears to be some kind of flakey hardware hiccup. --dkg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org