Carlos, Never saw that error msg myself. Only the "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out" one ever appears and now it always happens when I run hwclock. I've seen some references to this being a problem with Dell machines in particular, but none of the fixes I've tried seems to have cured it. Thanks. --ted Carlos E. R. said the following on 05/12/2008 06:29 PM:
The Monday 2008-05-12 at 14:59 -0400, Ted Markowitz wrote:
Sorry in advance if this has been answered previously, but I haven't found an answer which works for me to this point. The problem is this: under openSUSE 10.3 (2.6.22.17-0.1-default) 'hwclock' used to work for reading and setting my Dell Latitude 830's hardware clock via /dev/rtc, but it seems to have stopped functioning at some point and I hadn't realized it till now. I've already tried using the '--directisa' alternative to /dev/rtc, but that doesn't seem to work either. I can set the HW clock OK manually via the BIOS on startup, so it seems to be functioning at that level.
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madeye:~ # hwclock --show ; date ; date -u select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out Mon May 12 14:52:39 EDT 2008 Mon May 12 18:52:39 UTC 2008
I see randomly the error:
hwclock: open() of /dev/rtc failed, errno=16: Device or resource busy.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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