Kevin and Nate: Thanks for the suggestions. I'll live with the problem until I can find time to upgrade to Potato, rather than mess with fixing dependencies or looking for a board.
Upgrading is easy enough, I just did it 2 weeks ago on my main machines. Besides, I have all my data backed up on tape, so even if I wind up needing to wipeand reistall, I'll be OK. Meanwhile, I'll look for the RTC board that Nate mentioned in his message. I need a couple of them at least, as I have 4 machines that have this problem. Again thanks, this is why I choose Debian- the help is quick, freely given and almost _always_ works. --David On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Kevin A. Foss wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:54:59PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > > > > The machine is quite old, still has an ISA bus, circa 1993, running > > Linux 2.0. Ihe hwclock version is ... lesseee > > > > # hwclock --show > > mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. > > # hwclock --version > > hwclock 2.1/util-linux 2.6 > > > > OK? This didn't occur before the millenium, and may be similar to > > your situation. I HOPE you know a fix. If now, I will put another > > MB in it. > > Yeah, this is a rather old version of hwclock, the version in potato is > 2.4/2.10 I think. The easiest thing would be to get a newer > util-linux, or if that would require a lot of dependencies for you, > download the source and just compile a newer hwclock for yourself. > > It may have got messed up on 1/1/2000 because somehow the century > byte got changed in an unexpected fashion when it changed. > > -Kevin > -- > Kevin A. Foss ---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)