On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 15:45 +1000, Ben Stringer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:03 +1000, Yuandan Zhang wrote: > > > I tried the command lines (hwclock etc). but the problem exists. During > > shutdown, it seems at shutdown random seed, there was an quick error > > 'failed to synchronize hardware clock to the system clock' > > During the boot at startup auditd, there was some error, something like, > > ' denied ( write ) '. not sure if they are related. > > > > here is the cat /etc/sysconfig/clock > > > > ZONE="Australia/Sydney" > > UTC=false > > ARC=false > > Your settings look fine here. Same as mine, except I am in Melbourne. > > Try (as root): > > hwclock --debug > > and post the results. > > It may be the problem specific to your hardware stopping you setting the > clock. > > Also, if you run "hwclock" by itself, does it display the correct time? > > You can see the commands executed at shutdown (including the syncing of > the hardware clock) in /etc/init.d/halt if this is helpful in debugging > your problem. > > Cheers, Ben hwclock --debug produced NO error message looked at the /etc/init.d/halt script, the command or process is /sbin/hwclock --systohc --localtime the command line run of this command is ok but during halt, it failt, showing Syncing hardware clock to system time [FAILED] i want to try set time in the bios, what key to trigger bios setup? regards Yuandan
