hwclock delaying boot...

[Daniel J Blueman]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:16:48PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 06:54 -0700, LaMont Jones wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:18:09AM +0000, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>> > > Boot-charting jaunty-A3 [1] on my SSD system, we see both the
>> > > 'hwclockfirst.sh' and 'hwclock.sh' init scripts invoke 'hwclock
>> > > --hctosys --utc', being significant on the map.
>> >
>> > The two scripts are debian/ubuntu specific, and yes they both need to be
>> > there.  There are a series of long discussions centering around when we
>> > removed one of them.
>> >
>> We did a deep-dive on this at the sprint, and it turns out that neither
>> of them are necessary.
>>
>>       http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareClock
>
> It's an awesome page full of sanity.  I like it.
>
> Anyway, just wanted to note that ntp refuses to touch your clock if it's
> too far out of sync (more than 1 hour, IIRC), so ntpdate may still be
> necessary.

The '-g' argument to ntpd (which is default in Ubuntu) skips the
1-hour-out sanity check, so it should be no problem.
-- 
Daniel J Blueman