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[Intrepid] Unable to set System Clock to....

Bug #251334 reported by Alessandro Ghersi
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Bug Description

Intrepid 64bit updated today

 When the kernel starts appears:
Unable to set System Clock to (time and date)
cannot access the Hardware Clcok via any known method
Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method.
Unable to set system clock to: (time and date)

Important: this issue is also present in Hardy with kernel 2.6.26 vanilla but is not present with 2.6.24-19- generic and -20-generic

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Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi) wrote :
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Alessandro Ghersi (alessandro-ghersi) wrote :
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Luca Carrogu (motoplux) wrote :

I solved modifying
/etc/init.d/hwclockfirst.sh
and
/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
changing the line
HWCLOCKPARS=
in
HWCLOCKPARS="--directisa"

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markoa (marko-marko) wrote :

I also had a problem with incorrect system time since a clean install of Intrepid. The hack above seems to have fixed it.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

We fixed this in jaunty with the move to using hwclock --systz which no longer accesses the hardware clock on startup

Changed in util-linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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