Re: hang trying to sync hardware clock ...

2000-04-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > > > Which would indicate that /sbin/hwclock is hanging the system. > > yah, but why? I suppose anything from the prog itself to libc6, something with the timezone handling, a hardware problem, or even a combination of hardware and software specific to

Re: hang trying to sync hardware clock ...

2000-04-12 Thread Adam Shand
> Which would indicate that /sbin/hwclock is hanging the system. yah, but why? > Doh, probably because there is no file named /etc/init.d/hwclock. > hwclock.sh and hwclock are both in the util-linux package. not sure i follow this ... if i need util-linux why wouldn't the install have install

Re: hang trying to sync hardware clock ...

2000-04-12 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Adam Shand wrote: > /etc/init.d# ./hwclock.sh show == hwclock --show $GMT Which would indicate that /sbin/hwclock is hanging the system. > > I don't recall seeing any report of this problem go by on debian-boot, > > but you would have to check on that list (archives or ask)

Re: hang trying to sync hardware clock ...

2000-04-12 Thread Adam Shand
> It is very unlikely, but... a typo in the hwclock script could prevent > the next message from appearing, yet the script is still completing, in > which case the problem is in the script(s) being executed after > "hwclock". If the above yields nothing then check /etc/rcS.d and look > at the scr