Same on our "Noname". We run "ntpdate" at boot time (before cron
comes up!) to work around this for now...
> 2. Emacs runs only on the console and fails when using X
> (some kind of "XAtom protocol error")
Same here.
> 3. Elm prints out "Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received"
> and terminates after 7 tries without success.
This is because of the way elm was compiled (setgid mailgroup
vs. world-writable mailspool directory). Quick fix:
chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
-t