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e2fsprogs package

  1. Bug #43239
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 43239

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In , Nate Eldredge (nge) wrote : Re: util-linux: hwclock runs too early, breaking the system time

I see this behavior as well. Unfortunately there is a catch-22 in fixing
it. e2fsck as of e2fsprogs-1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.10-1 now checks if the
last mount date on a filesystem is "in the future". So if hwclock does
not run before fsck, and your timezone is west of GMT, this check is
triggered and the resulting error stops you from booting. But fsck must
happen before /usr can be mounted. :(

I don't know what to do about this. You could set TZ in /etc/default/rcS
but then you have to change both that and /etc/localtime if you want to
switch time zones. You could make /etc/localtime a copy instead of a
symlink but that's not very nice. Or you could suppress that behavior of
e2fsck somehow and move hwclock back after fsck.

Personally, I gave up and just set my hw clock to GMT.

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Nate Eldredge
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