On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:43:16 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:

> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard
> clock is a little slow.  When the system comes up, the system time is
> set from the motherboard clock.  If that's slow, something in the init
> system seems to panic because some file or other has a timestamp in
> the future.

Change the motherboard battery?

Set  clock_systohc="YES" in /etc/conf.d/hwclock

> Just to make it extra convenient, it clears the console screen when
> that happens so there's no actual record of what went wrong or which
> component in th init process is failing.

You can stop the console clearing by changing the first terminal line
in /etc/inittab to

c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux


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Neil Bothwick

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