Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-11 Thread David Teague
Carl: I set the date in the BIOS directly, now all that stuff, appartenly icluding mktime, all seem to WORK! Many thanks! David On 10 Feb 2000, Carl Johnson wrote: > David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Kevin and Nate: > > > > Thanks for the suggestions. I'll live with the problem

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-10 Thread David Teague
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

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-10 Thread Kevin A. Foss
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-li

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-09 Thread aphro
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, David Teague wrote: dbt ># hwclock --show dbt >mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. dbt ># hwclock --version dbt >hwclock 2.1/util-linux 2.6 dbt > dbt >OK? This didn't occur before the millenium, and may be similar to dbt >your situation. I HOPE you know a fix. If

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-09 Thread David Teague
On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Kevin A. Foss wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 02:14:24PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > > > > My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and > > 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk. > [...] > > gandalf# /sbin/hwclock -w > > mktime() failed unexpectedly (

Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-05 Thread Kevin A. Foss
On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 02:14:24PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > Hi > > My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and > 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk. [...] > gandalf# /sbin/hwclock -w > mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. You didn't mention the version

Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

2000-02-04 Thread David Teague
Hi My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk. When I try to set the hardware clock, I get the error message indicated in the subject line. The entire exchange that brought this to mind is: gandalf# /usr/sbin/netdate time_a.timef