[Bug 59596] /dev/rtc Device or resource busy

[DrSpirograph]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: linux-image-686

I am unable to use /dev/rtc at all.
This is proving to be very problematic for running vmware.

I've looked around on google and no one seems to have come up with a
solution to this problem.

If I try to read from /dev/rtc, even as root, I get
opening `/dev/rtc': Device or resource busy

I've checked if there are any other processes holding the resource with
fuser, but nothing is shown:

root at serenity:~# fuser -av /dev/rtc

                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/rtc:

I'm seeing this occur straight after boot up, there seems to be no way
to access the real time clock.

I am using Dapper 6.06
My CPU is Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor  1.60GHz
uname -a : Linux serenity 2.6.15-26-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 3 03:13:28 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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/dev/rtc Device or resource busy
https://launchpad.net/bugs/59596