Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Keith Powell <keith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am having a problem with 8.2 not keeping time.

Each time I boot, it has gained or lost several seconds. There is no 
consistency with the amount, and it is altering the bios clock.

For example, as test, I set the bios clock accurately and booted 8.2. The KDM 
clock was 9 seconds fast, so I rebooted. This time it was 22 seconds fast. I 
re-set the clock in KDE and rebooted. Again it was several seconds fast (6 
seconds this time), and it had altered the bios clock to its setting.

It is only 8.2 which has done this. I have not come across this problem before 
in any earlier versions. Also I am running the latest Mandrake to look at 
that distro. It keeps perfect time, as does Windows98 (which I specially blew 
the cobwebs off to try!)

Finally, I reinstalled SuSE8.1 on a spare hard drive, and that keeps perfect 
time. So it is only 8.2 which doesn't.

I have each distro on its own hard drive. Each drive is in a tray and I plug 
into the computer whichever tray (operating system) I want to use. So the 
test conditions are the same.

Has anyone else this problem with 8.2? It's infuriating having to re-set the 
time each time I boot it - which can be several times a day as I don't leave 
the computer on when I am not using it..

Cheers

Keith