Adam Woodbridge wrote:
> I've noticed over the past couple of days that everytime I reboot my
> machine (a Pentium II 233 running RedHat 5.0), the time is incorrect.
> Until I could take the time to figure out what was wrong, I've been
> manually setting the time using the "date" command.
>
> I finally discovered today that the problem traces back to the "hwclock"
> command, which is run at startup in the rc.sysinit script. Invoking this
> command with the "--show" option produces a "Segmentation fault (core
> dumped)" error message. I suppose this is why my clock isn't being set
> properly at startup.
>
> Oddly enough, another Linux box at the same site, dual-booting Slackware
> 3.4 and RedHat 5.0 is doing the exact same thing, in both distributions.
> This machine happens to be a plain Pentium 200.
>
> I've tried re-compiling the hwclock program using the util-linux source
> from sunsite.unc.edu: that didn't work either.
Hummm I had a similar problem on my machine. It turned out that the startup
script reads a file called /usr/sysconfig/clock my file had the improper
settings. UTM was set to true. So every time the computer started it ran date
expecting the system clock to be set using utm instead of Pacific time. So it
ran 7 hours early. Changing this setting corrected the problems on boot.
I am guessing here but It could be something that you could check on.
Jimbo.
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