Debian Bug report logs - #353250
util-linux: hwclock ignores UTC setting in /etc/default/rcS

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ron Murray <rjmx@rjmx.net>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: util-linux: hwclock ignores UTC setting in /etc/default/rcS

Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:25:57 -0500

Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12r-6
Severity: normal


Since the recent util-linux upgrade, all five of my Debian machines
(running etch) boot up with their clocks five hours slow (i.e. the
difference between my timezone and UTC). All have "UTC=no" in
/etc/default/rcS, but the system clock is not being set to reflect
this. Worse, on reboot, the hardware clock is being set to this
incorrect time (unless I've remembered to fix it first), and on the
next reboot the system clock is even further behind.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4-cheops-0
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii  libc6         2.3.5-13                   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5   5.5-1                      Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libslang2     2.0.5-3                    The S-Lang programming library - r
ii  libuuid1      1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 universally unique id library
ii  lsb-base      3.0-15                     Linux Standard Base 3.0 init scrip
ii  zlib1g        1:1.2.3-9                  compression library - runtime

util-linux recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 353250@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jae-hyeon Park <jhpark@tuhep.phys.tohoku.ac.jp>

To: 353250@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Happens if /usr/share/zoneinfo is in a different partition than /

Date: 17 Feb 2006 19:29:23 +0900

I had the same problem.

On my system, /usr and / are on different partitions.  When
/etc/rcS.d/S22hwclock.sh copies the hardware clock to the system
clock, it cannot read the timezone information from /etc/localtime,
which is a symbolic link to a file under /usr/share/zoneinfo, since
/usr is mounted later by /etc/rcS.d/S35mountall.sh.

For a temporary fix, I did

# cd /etc/rcS.d
# mv mv S22hwclock.sh S36hwclock.sh

But I'm not sure whether or not this is a good way.

Message #15 received at 353250@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: hma@syd.odn.ne.jp

To: 353250@bugs.debian.org

Subject: patch : util-linux: hwclock ignores UTC setting in /etc/default/rcS

Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:50:12 GMT

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Hi,

I had the same problem.

/usr isn't mounted and TZ is not set when /etc/rcS.d/S*hwclock*.sh run.

What I did is to set temporal TZ variable and let scripts to see it.
I made patches which applied to:
    /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
and
    /etc/default/rcS

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    Takeshi Hamasaki
    E-mail: hma@syd.odn.ne.jp

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