On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 16:04 -0700, byrdca@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have a dual boot Fedora 9 / Win XP Pro box. I notice that when I > boot to fedora my time is wrong and "System Clock Uses UTC" is still > checked even though I unchecked it at install time. When attempting > to clear the "UTC" check box and reset the time with > system-config-date I get the following error "Failed to synchronize > hardware clock. This may be because there is no hardware clock > accessible, e.g. when running in a virtualized environment". I am not > running in a virtualized environment so I checked the output of the > following: > > hwclock --debug --show > > and got the following response > > hwclock from util-linux-ng 2.13.1 > hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=2: No such file or directory. > No usable clock interface found. > Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. > > I ran dmesg | grep /dev/rtc and got no hits, I booted hit del to enter > setup and checked the cmos menu in order to look at the clock and it > seemed right so I don't think the battery has failed. > > output of uname -r is > > 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64 > > > Does the list have any ideas? Does the /dev/rtc device file exist? ('ls -l /dev/rtc'). Does the output of 'cat /proc/devices' contain an rtc line? Also, 'man MAKEDEV'. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list