Oops.. sorry for the typo. The server in question is running linux-2.2.16 
tarball from ftp.kernel.org instead of 2.2.17 .

Thanks!

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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:28:14 +0800 (SGT)
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Subject: set_rtc_mmss ?
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Hello!

I am currently running the tarball linux-2.2.17 from ftp.kernel.org on a
RedHat Linux 6.2 server. The server is a Dell PowerEdge 4300 with 1GB RAM
, 2 x PIII600 and a DRAC PERC2/SC RAID controller.

The server mainly runs software like MySQL Server, Samba Server, NFS
Server and LDAP Server.

All is working well except that randomly, sometimes afer a few days or
sometimes after many weeks, the following error message would appear when
I type dmesg at the shell prompt.

set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 50 to 1
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 50 to 2
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 50 to 3
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 50 to 4
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 53 to 4
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 53 to 5
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 53 to 6
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 53 to 7
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 49 to 0
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 49 to 1
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 49 to 2
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 49 to 3
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 56 to 7
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 56 to 8
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 56 to 9
set_rtc_mmss: can't update from 56 to 10

And when I check up on /proc/rtc, it is no longer running and is stuck at
the time when the first set_rtc_mmss error occurs. When I tried to run
programs like setclock to update the hardware clock, it just jams there
for a very long time and a strace shows that it is trying to access
/proc/rtc .

server:~# date
Tue Oct 10 21:21:04 SGT 2000

server:~# uptime
  9:21pm  up 36 days,  4:54,  1 user,  load average: 2.88, 2.04, 1.83

server:~# cat /proc/rtc
rtc_time        : 17:41:57
rtc_date        : 2000-10-09
rtc_epoch       : 1900
alarm           : 04:33:37
DST_enable      : no
BCD             : yes
24hr            : yes
square_wave     : no
alarm_IRQ       : no
update_IRQ      : no
periodic_IRQ    : no
periodic_freq   : 1024
batt_status     : okay

server:~# fuser -u -a -v /proc/rtc

                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/proc/rtc
No process references; use -v for the complete list

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this problem? The only
solution that I came across till date is to reboot the server and then
set back the correct date/time in the CMOS before allowing the server to
bootup.

Many thanks in advance!

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