From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200003151515.PAA20192@hyperion.valhalla.net> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:15:28 +0000 Subject: Re: 2.3.51 Trashes RTC on Beige G3 Mini-tower From: "Iain Sandoe" To: Christiaan Welvaart CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > >> at boot time {with options vmode=atyfb, vmode:16,code:32 single } >> the usual "rtc time is" ... prints the correct date... >> then we get "setting time to ... some time in Feb 1932... >> from then on the RTC is wrong although using 'date' to set the correct time >> behaves as expected on the running system. >> Is this a library problem? (I'm using 2.3.51 with a system installed from >> linuxPPC Q3 - but I've also updated to glibc-2.1.3 - j). > > On a beige G3 Dekstop, with the standard 2.3.51 sources, I don't see this > problem At least there are no wrong dates set in /var/messages, though I > only booted 2.3.51 twice. I use glibc-2.1.3-4a (with linux 2.2.14 now). As of today's rsync - the trashing is no more... It turns out the /etc/adjtime had got some very silly numbers in it - so I can't tell at what point the problem went away. > I did find a different problem: the builtin ethernet port doesn't work. It > seems to work (almost?) perfectly from within linux (i.e. no errors), but > no ethernet connection is made. The light on the hub stays off while the > kernel reports that BMAC ethernet was succesfully initialized. > This problem I don't have - at least I connected to linuxppc.org quite happily 5 minutes ago ;-) swap .config files? Iain. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/