Problem with /etc/init.d/clock on restart after install

jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

After my install with raid1 and LVM2 support I have a problem at reboot time. When the boot gets to the part where it says 'Setting system clock using the hardware clock [UTC] ...' i get a yellow asterisk with the message 'select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed outselect() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out'. Then I get a series of lines with red asterics that say ->

<red asteric> Failed to set system clock to hardware clock
<red asteric> Failed to start /etc/init.d/clock

<red asterisk> One or more critical startup scripts failed to start!
<red asteric> Please correct this, and reboot

Give root password fo rmaintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

I've checked /etc/conf.d/clock and I see that CLOCK="UTC" and I've made sure to 'cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Central /etc/localtime'. I'm stuck. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Jeastman

didymos · Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:53 pm Post subject:

What happens if you login as root and do "/etc/init.d/clock start"? Same thing?
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jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

Thomas:

Thanks for the reply. If I login as root and do /etc/init.d/clock start I get ->

<red asterisk> ERROR: cannot run clock until sysinit completes
<red asterisk> clock will be started in the boot runlevel

I took a look inside /dev and I can see /dev/rtc is there and is a link to misc/rtc. Also I've run a 'dmeg + grep -i clock' and I see ->

Time: tsc clocksource has been installed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac

Many thanks for the help.

Jeastman

jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

Thomas:

I just had a light bulb of an idea ..... how about i take the clock script out of the startup and use ntp instead. Would that do the trick?

Jeastman

didymos · Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject:

No, you should leave that in. ntp is intended for a different purpose, namely syncing the clock to some reference source. What do you have set in /etc/conf.d/clock? Besides the CLOCK="UTC", I mean.
Also, there's a workaround I found out about which you can try. Change CLOCK_OPTS to this:

jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

I've made the 'CLOCK_OPTS="--directisa"' change and am rebooting now.

The options under Character Devices are ->

CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y

As well, anything with RTC in its name are ->
CONFIG_RTC=m
CONFIG_GEN_RTC=m
CONFIG_GEN_RTC_X=y
CONFIG_RTC_LIB=m
CONFIG_RTC_CLASS=m
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_SYSFS=m
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_PROC=m
CONFIG_RTC_INTF_DEV=m
CONFIG_RTC_DRV_M48T86=m

didymos · Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:39 am Post subject:

So, are you loading genrtc, or just rtc? Also, I assume you built rtc-m48t86 for a reason, so is that getting loaded during bootup?. Oh, and when I mentioned character devices, I meant what HPET options, found in the character devices section, do you have in your config? You probably don't need to bother with the RTC class stuff, unless you have some special needs. Usually, I just build the standard rtc into the kernel, instead of as a module, but again, maybe you have special requirements that make it easier to have it as module instead.
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jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

The CLOCK_OPTS="--directisa" option worked. When I noticed that my 4 port 10/100 NIC was not being recognized I rebuilt the kernel with the tulip drivers built in and promptly screwed up my RAID and LVM2 settings. As you might expect this caused the reboot to NOT perform as hoped. This is not a bad thing though because I can recover from this one ..... I hope ...... Many thanks for your help. Have a nice evening.

Jeastman

ecce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 92

I'm trying to install gentoo on my C2D machine. I use the "small gentoo" live-CD that supports the JMicron controller that I need. Installation is done, and when I reboot for the first time and the system starts up it stops with this error message:

dkostic · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:27 am Post subject:

I confess I've never heard of this happening. Is rc-update starting the clock at boot time? Can you chroot into the environment off the LiveCD and show me what

black.gavin · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:15 am Post subject:

This happens with some boards(VIA K8t800 is one I know of) and is actually a problem with RTC. My guess is that the rtc module is probably loading after it should be. Going into the kernel and compiling in rtc instead of having it as a module might work. You could just goto /usr/src/linux/.config and make sure that you have CONFIG_RTC=y uncommented and then recompile the kernel. That's all I can think of right now that might be possible.

mudrii · l33t Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 789 Location: Singapore

to access hw clock use
hwclock
and compare with
date
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whiskas · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:56 am Post subject:

Try to run hwclock --directisa (as root). If that works, add --directisa in /etc/conf.d/clock to CLOCK_OPTS and voilà, problem solved!

nixnut · Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 10:01 am Post subject:

merged above five posts here.
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ecce · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 22 Oct 2005 Posts: 92

black.gavin: That was exactly what was wrong. I use ASUS P5B motherboard with iP965 chip, but anyway, now its fixed. Thanks a lot!

pjv · Guru Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 353 Location: Belgium

My same problem was solved with --directisa. I have CONFIG_RTC=y, but I was wondering which HPET options I should select, just to get things right? I have these (on a dualcore):

CONFIG_HPET_TIMER=y
CONFIG_HPET_EMULATE_RTC=y

nixnut · Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
Postinstallation problem, so moved here.
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