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

[Mauricio]

Hello again,

I forgot, I'm upgraded to bios revision A08 last week.
Now I'm running the following script to force the bug happen.

while true; do 
  sudo /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh start; 
  sleep 2;  
  sudo  /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh stop; 
  sleep 2; 
done

...And guess, I got it, because in other term ran the following script:
~$ while true; do sudo hwclock --show; sleep 2; done
Password:
Fri 01 Sep 2006 12:39:07 AM CST  -0.475796 seconds
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out
select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out

Well, had to kill a lot of instances of hwclock that were running. I didn't know that script lauch a new instance each time.
My conclusion is, Ubuntu 6.06.1 with Linunx 2.6.17 is affected too, even using --directisa.

Anybody has a solution for this.

Regards,

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