Public bug reported: I had a problem with RTC alarm in BIOS in Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04 alpha3, finally solved thanks to http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup#Disable_hwclock_updates_.28FUSSY_BIOS.29
Quote: Most linux distributions write the current system time back to the bios when shutting down the machine. Some BIOSes refuse to wake up if the hardware clock is modified after the alarm timer has been set. To avoid that the current system time is written back to the hardware clock it required to change your startup scripts. ... Ubuntu & Debian modifying /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh with the following will fix this problem: stop|restart|reload|force-reload) ==> ACPITIME=`cat /proc/acpi/alarm` if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ] then if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] then echo "Saving the System Clock time to the Hardware Clock..." fi [ "$GMT" = "-u" ] && GMT="--utc" /sbin/hwclock --systohc $GMT $BADYEAR if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] then echo "Hardware Clock updated to `date`." fi ==> echo "$ACPITIME" > /proc/acpi/alarm ** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Change /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh to enable RTC alarm in BIOS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187128 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs