On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 10:42 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote: > On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 09:11 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator > wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > > > > I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e > > > notebook this evening with not much luck. > > > > Snip... > > > > > I then rebooted again, and during the reboot the machine complained > > > about not having a disk check for about 49,710 days. It ran through the > > > disk check and rebooted, it then on the second reboot said exactly the > > > same thing. > > > > It isn't the battery - I don't know what it is but it's much nastier > > than a dead battery :-( > > > > Doing some simple maths :- > > > > 2 ^ 32 = 4294967296 > > MAXINT = 4294967296 - 1 = 4294967295 > > 4294967295 / 86400 = 49710.2696181 > > > > this is unlikely to be a battery problem. It looks as if some routine > > is not reading the date correctly and it is returning either 0 or MAXINT. > > For those that haven't clicked, 4294967295 is biggest number that can be > > represented in a 32 bit word and 86400 is the number of seconds in a day. > > Standard UTC uses the same 32 bits, that's why we have to worry about 2038 > > (1970 + 49000 days). > > > > Quite what the actual problem is, I don't know but I wouldn't be looking > > at changing batteries, I'd suspect some hardware incompatibility. > > > > Some numbers just ring funny :-) > > > > TTFN > > > Hi > > Honestly I've installed Ubuntu countless times, mostly servers. Since > 7.04 i seem to get this every time! On different machines and VMs. I > assumed this was just a "lazy" way of forcing a disk check after its > been installed. > > So all i do is install, apt-get upgrade, reboot, reboot... and then all > is fine after that... almost like a post install intentional mess that > sorts itself out. > > Later, > Michael > > >
Yeah, I get this all the time too. There's at least two bug reports already open on this issue. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/96471 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/107793 Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
