A quick update: I got hwclock to work by using the "--directisa" parameter. Must be related to the mainboard/BIOS of the various Dell systems. I talked to a support guy and he confirmed that different PowerEdge systems have totally different BIOSes and mainboards. Although he has not heard of my problem before... Now the last question: When I shut down the system it tries to sync the system time into the hardware clock and it gets the exact same error. How do I tell this process to use the "--directisa" parameter? Is there a config file or do I have to modify the respective file in etc/init.d directly? Thanks, MARK > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:04 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Hwclock error - "select() ... timed out" > > > Hi, > > I have a new Dell PowerEdge 2650 and installed FC3. I update > the time against an ntp server. After rebooting, the time was > a few hours back. I resynched against the ntp server and > tried to do a "/sbin/hwclock --systohc", which gave me the > following error: > > select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out > > What causes this? I don't think it's a hardware problem since > the same thing happens an several machines that are all new... > > Hwclock --show gives me the same error... > > Thanks, > > MARK > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
