[clug] hwclock hanging waiting for clock tick

Andrew Smith andrew at coolchilli.com
Wed Dec 8 00:44:20 GMT 2004


I first suspected a battery fault, so I had the guy onsite unplug the
box and check the time came back, which it did.  I didn't check though
if the time advanced.  /proc/driver/rtc also reports the battery is ok,
so I don't think that's it.

Andrew

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:31, Brett Worth wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 11:29:29AM +1100, Andrew Smith wrote:
> 
> > As you can see from below, hwclock waits forever for a clock tick,
> 
> I wonder if a shorted battery would to this?



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