2.3.51 Trashes RTC on Beige G3 Mini-tower

[Iain Sandoe]

>
>> at boot time {with options vmode=atyfb, vmode:16,code:32 single }
>> the usual "rtc time is" ... prints the correct date...
>> then we get "setting time to ... some time in Feb 1932...
>> from then on the RTC is wrong although using 'date' to set the correct time
>> behaves as expected on the running system.
>> Is this a library problem? (I'm using 2.3.51 with a system installed from
>> linuxPPC Q3 - but I've also updated to glibc-2.1.3 - j).
>
> On a beige G3 Dekstop, with the standard 2.3.51 sources, I don't see this
> problem At least there are no wrong dates set in /var/messages, though I
> only booted 2.3.51 twice. I use glibc-2.1.3-4a (with linux 2.2.14 now).

As of today's rsync - the trashing is no more...
It turns out the /etc/adjtime had got some very silly numbers in it - so I
can't tell at what point the problem went away.

> I did find a different problem: the builtin ethernet port doesn't work. It
> seems to work (almost?) perfectly from within linux (i.e. no errors), but
> no ethernet connection is made. The light on the hub stays off while the
> kernel reports that BMAC ethernet was succesfully initialized.
>

This problem I don't have - at least I connected to linuxppc.org quite
happily 5 minutes ago ;-)

swap .config files?
Iain.


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