Public bug reported:
I use a laptop that usually runs Windows XP. To try out Ubuntu 9.10 on
it, I booted Ubuntu from the Live CD, selecting the boot screen's menu
item "Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer". Ubuntu booted up;
I played around with it for a while; everything went fine so far.
Although Ubuntu's clock was set to different time than Windows' -- GMT I
guess -- that was no problem for the purpose of trying it out.
The problem appeared when I shut down Ubuntu and rebooted into Windows:
The system clock still showed the time to which Ubuntu had changed it. I
had to correct it by updating Windows' system time. Ubuntu had changed
the computer's BIOS clock.
Now, I admit that from a narrowly technical point of view, this bug in
itself isn't a big deal. After all, it's almost trivial to work around.
Nevertheless, it _is_ a serious problem for me that this behaviour
breaks the deal Ubuntu had offered me before I booted it: "Try Ubuntu
_without_any_change_ to your computer". If you tell me you won't touch
my computer, and then go ahead and change its BIOS clock anyway, how I
can I trust that you haven't changed anything else?
Best regards,
Thomas.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Dec 16 17:50:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:3343): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(gnome-settings-daemon:3343): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(nautilus:3389): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
`preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3420): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(yelp:3561): Yelp-WARNING **: Failed to load config file: No such file or
directory
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386
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Live CD changes BIOS clock
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/497504
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