Clock Setting Problem

[PrakashC]

Open SUSE 11.2 Milestone -
I have installed Dual Boot (through Grub), Windows Vista and Linux (now Open Suse 11.2 Milestone)

I have run into a problem with the clock. Under environment, I have set the hardware clock time to local time, Time Zone to (Asia/Kolkata) and the Default Time Zone also to Asia/Kolkata. Each time I boot in the clock goes back by 5 Hrs 30 min.

My observations are:

a) UTC off (i.e. hardware clock set to local time, Time Zone (Asia Kolkata) and default Time Zone any the clock goes slow by 5:30 Hrs.

b) Hardware clock set to -u, the clock goes ahead by 11:00 Hrs.

c) A check of the boot log shows the point at which the clock is being reset while booting :
“<notice -- Oct 30 21:54:50.548956000> service boot.clock startSet System Time to the current Hardware Clockdone
<notice -- Oct 30 16:24:50.704945000> service boot.clock done”
The command comes from the file etc/boot.d/K02boot.clock.

There is obviously a bug in this file or one of the files it calls up.

Makes no difference whether I am on line (Broad Band) or operating as stand alone.

At the moment I resort to resetting the time each time I start SUSE 11.2.

[Knurpht]

Welcome to the forum !!!!

First: there should be some setting to get it right, better is to use NTP. NTP can be configured from Yast, and syncs your system's time from a time-server.

[malcolmlewis]

Originally Posted by PrakashC

Open SUSE 11.2 Milestone -
I have installed Dual Boot (through Grub), Windows Vista and Linux (now
Open Suse 11.2 Milestone)

I have run into a problem with the clock. Under environment, I have
set the hardware clock time to local time, Time Zone to (Asia/Kolkata)
and the Default Time Zone also to Asia/Kolkata. Each time I boot in the
clock goes back by 5 Hrs 30 min.

My observations are:

a) UTC off (i.e. hardware clock set to local time, Time Zone (Asia
Kolkata) and default Time Zone any the clock goes slow by 5:30 Hrs.

b) Hardware clock set to -u, the clock goes ahead by 11:00 Hrs.

c) A check of the boot log shows the point at which the clock is being
reset while booting :
“<notice -- Oct 30 21:54:50.548956000> service boot.clock startSet
System Time to the current Hardware Clockdone
<notice -- Oct 30 16:24:50.704945000> service boot.clock done�
The command comes from the file etc/boot.d/K02boot.clock.

There is obviously a bug in this file or one of the files it calls up.

Makes no difference whether I am on line (Broad Band) or operating as
stand alone.

At the moment I resort to resetting the time each time I start SUSE
11.2.

Hi and welcome to the forum

What milestone, this was a known bug from a few milestones ago.
http://forums.opensuse.org/pre-relea...s-a7k-esp.html

Run mkinitrd as root user and all should be fine.

You could look at installing RC2 or wait until next week for the
release.....

PS: since it's a pre-release/beta you should post issue in
http://forums.opensuse.org/pre-release-beta/

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[PrakashC]

Sorry mkinitrd doesnt solve the problem.

PrakashC

[PrakashC]

I had been resigned to live with the clock problem till the Final Release (in a few day?). However, yesterday, I ran the online update and noticed that one of the packages updated was mkinitrd. Obviously the next step was to run mkinitrd as root. And that did the trick. Thanks.

PrakashC