Followup,
strace shows it's trying to open files that are none-existent
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munmap(0xb7dde000, 4096) = 0
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo",
O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY) =
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY)
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY)
= -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/util-linux.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1
ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for"..., 54select() to /dev/rtc
to wait for clock tick timed out
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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:44:31 -0500, Yang Xiao <yxiao2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using FC3 on Dell PowerEdge 1850, the hwclock command seems to be broken
>
> [root@mybox]# hwclock
> select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Yang
>
