* Dave Barton [07-19-07 23:53]:

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On 20/07/07 at 13:02 - clarkt@cnsp.com wrote:

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I have had 10.2 installed on one of my boxes since it was first released and until today it never given me any problems. When I turned this box on today the boot process started and froze at "Setting up the hardware clock". Tried several hardware resets and a few attempts at a "Safe Boot", but it continues to freeze at the same point. There is no problem booting into Win XP, or live CDs from 4 other distros where there does not appear issue with the date/time setting.

Can anyone offer any thoughts or suggestions as to a possible cause and/or solution.

TIA

Dave

If this is a 64 bit system, replace /sbin/hwclock with the 32 bit version of hwclock.

Yes, it is a 64 bit system. I have seen some reference to this in my searches prior to posting here. Strange that this should suddenly become a problem after all this time. Guess I have just been real lucky all these months.

Next question: How do you boot a non-booting system to make this change?

Thanks

Dave

There is a bug report in bugzilla.novell.com. The 32 bit version of hwclock uses interupts while the 64 bit version does polling. This is where it hangs up. If your system just started with this issue, did you update the kernel or a driver? I've seen where drivers may cause this to occur. I have a desktop dual core AMD that does not have this problem, but my dual core laptop does. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org