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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:11:30 +0100
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.15-rc4 RTC problems
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Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> I am having troubles booting my 8-way P-III machine.
> On boot it hangs in init script boot.clock.
> It prints,
>
> "Setting up the CMOS clock"
>
> and hangs. So I disabled that script and brought up
> the machine and ran command manually. It looks like
> it waits forever to read from /dev/rtc.
>
> # strace /sbin/hwclock --adjust -u
> ....
> open("/dev/rtc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)  = 3
> ioctl(3, RTC_UIE_ON, 0)                 = 0
> read(3, <unfinished ...>

Are you using HPET? (see dmesg)
Do some interrupts arrive? (see /proc/interrupts)


Regards,
Clemens

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