I have a PC which, upon boot, hangs while trying to set the system
clock from the hardware clock. It's at a remote location from where I
am, so I won't be able to take a look at it until this weekend.
I've done a little research and have determined that it's possibly a
bad cmos battery (which seems unlikely - this is a dual PIII with cpus
running at 1 GHz, not overclocked - in other words, it's not all that
old), or perhaps the rtc itself has gone bad (how likely is this?).
Any other suggestions on what to look for? The only one I can come up
with off the top of my head is that the battery may have come unseated
- I've moved the box around quite a bit in the past.
Last few lines from 'strace hwclock' (it's definitely hanging at
reading from /dev/rtc...):
open("/dev/rtc", O_RDONLY|0x8000) = 3
ioctl(3, 0x7003, 0) = 0
read(3, <unfinished ...>
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