Randolph Jones <jonesrf1 <at> qwest.net> writes: > ... At this point we have to assume that the problem could be anywhere, in hardware or software, and we have to dig deeper. Please answer these questions: - do you have other OSs on your machine (Win, FreeBSD, etc) ? Do you observe the same faulty clock/time behavior in them ? How is your Win configured ? To local or UTC time ? - do you run Fedora in virtualized environment ? - is your Fedora system up-to-date ? Just do it: # yum check-update # yum update - is your kernel original (Fedora's) or customized ? - what Fedora desktop manager do you have (GNOME, KDE, etc) ? - do you get that same or another error message when you try to change system clock as below ? assuming GNOME: System - Admin - Date & Time Time Zone tab at bottom you see: System clock uses UTC normally it should be Off (cleared). check it off (turn it On) and press OK any error message ? did it accept ? if yes, restore it to original Off state. - reboot your machine, go into BIOS, make sure your CMOS clock is set to your local date and time - save (!) BIOS settings and restart - what time is shown on your desktop panel ? print it for us ... Is it approx equal to the time you set in BIOS, local and correct ? - Now do not make any changes to your clock/time while we are testing ! - give us display of (unedited; as root to simplify): Open your gnome terminal or other xterm. Do these entries in one session so we can compare the date/times. # uname -a # cat /etc/grub.conf # rpm -V gnome-panel # rpm -V system-config-date # yum list installed "*tzdata*" # rpm -V tzdata # tail /var/log/messages # date Is that above your local and correct date and time ? # ls -al /dev/rtc* # dmesg | grep -i rtc # cat /proc/devices | grep -i rtc # ls -al /etc/adjtime # cat /etc/adjtime # hwclock --debug --show # grep -ir "hwclock" /etc/init.d/ # cat /etc/sysconfig/clock # ls -al /etc/localtime Post it to mailing list now. We will take a look at it. In the meantime, look at this since your last boot # less /var/log/messages search for recent date and time and locate line starting with this: Linux version 2.6.35.9- 271 64.fc14.i686 (mockbuild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (gcc version 4.5. 271 1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Dec 3 12:35:42 UTC 2010 and see if there are any error messages you think may be related to time/date/rtc/clock and so on ? Let us know if anything catches your attention. JB -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
