Edgy installer on iBook G3/500 crashes when date is 1904

[dnmvisser]

After maintenance and incidently resetting the bios clock to zero, which appreantly is the year 1904 on an iBook, the Xubuntu Edgy installer crashes.
After setting the date to a proper value (28 Nov 2006) the install works fine.
Here is the captured output of syslog on the crashed system:

http://cajones.org/~dick/syslog.txt

Best regards,

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[sam tygier (samtygier)]

related to Bug #23426

maybe both could be fixed if when the hardware clock is read, the date is forced to be after 1970.

[dnmvisser (dnmvisser)]

sam tygier wrote:
> related to Bug #23426
>
> maybe both could be fixed if when the hardware clock is read, the date
> is forced to be after 1970.
>

looks like a relation indeed.
sorry for not checking for past bugs, i just followed the advice in the text that was
onscreen while the crash happened.

the fixed post-1970 date would seem as a viable solution to me.
good luck and thanks for the prompt answer.

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[sam tygier (samtygier)]

it is still a seperate bug so needs a seperate report.

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Thanks for the syslog. Attaching it here as well.

[DapperD (deiszmp)]

also gnome / nautilus refuse to start when on Macs (ibooks without battery for some time) the date is to low.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is also bug 57952.