[Bug 43745] Re: Ubuntu corrupts real time clock on some dell laptops

Wed Nov 22 04:06:55 UTC 2006

It is with great sadness that I report Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy corrupts the
bios on my old (5 years) Inspiron 8000 Pentium 3 1GHZ. So it appears
that this problem is not limited to newer hardware.

Installed Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy, rebooted 5 times or so. And when booting up
the Bios message appeared stating that the date/time had been lost and
did I want to F1 Set the date/time now or F2 ignore this error.  Luckily
this BIOS has more user friendly options than my Inspiron 6400 which
simply displays the infuriating "time of date clock stopped" message and
then fails to boot or do anything.

This is very serious guys, what action is being done to investigate this
problem? Nearly 6 months and no resolution.

(I'm surprised this has not been Slashdotted about yet).

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Ubuntu corrupts real time clock on some dell laptops
https://launchpad.net/bugs/43745