Re: problem with system clock

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:33:44 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Herbert Huber wrote:

>motherboard used is an ASUS P2B-DF. Trying to set the BIOS clock via
>the /sbin/clock or the /sbin/hwclock
>commands fail. As probable reason for this behaviour the syslog file is
>full of entries like:
>
>Sep 16 07:31:23 lxsrv2 kernel: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 50 to 1
>Sep 16 07:32:24 lxsrv2 kernel: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 50 to 2
>Sep 16 07:33:25 lxsrv2 kernel: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 50 to 3
>Sep 16 07:34:26 lxsrv2 kernel: set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 50 to 4

You forgot to specify that you are running ntpd ;). It's a SMP race somewhere.
I didn't gone into that yet.

Andrea

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