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On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Ed W wrote:
On 02/11/2012 13:40, John.Florian@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> - I haven't seen any exhibit this after the clock is set once
This is where I think our situations differ. I do have some that go
wonky **again** even after I've set the clock. Maybe we're setting
the clock differently. What method specifically do you use? The
hwclock command, the BIOS, something else?
Or maybe, my situation is just like yours but in this same batch, I
have a few boards that genuinely have bad batteries.
Yeah, I thought you meant it was the ones with bad batteries which were
persisting with the problem - otherwise by definition they should have
roughly accurate clocks after each reboot and probably you wouldn't
have noticed they were badly out?
I guess with a bad battery you are booting from an uninitialised state
each time?
Also you seem to confirm that a warm reboot correctly initialises the
hardware, it's just the cold boot which is an issue. This hints at
some kernel driver failing to initialise something correctly. I think
if you have a single machine where it's reproducible, especially if you
can clearly see the RTC driver failing to initialise in the dmesg logs,
then you could take that to the kernel mailing list and get some help
debugging the RTC driver? Basically find a machine with dead battery
where it's reproducible and don't fix the battery!
On a warm reboot, the rtc would have a voltage all of the time between the
shutdown and turn on. At shutdown, the rtc would have been set to the proper
time by hwclock in the halt script ( or parhaps even by chrony) so that on
reboot it would be approximately the right time. Ie, I do not think it is
anything about the bootup properly intialising, but of the shutdown setting
the rtc and the continuous volatage to the rtc keeping it ticking.
Ie, I am not at all sure this is a problem anywhere but in the dead battery.
Please copy me in on any kernel correspondence?
Ed
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