My RTC clock doesn't work, on a particularly old piece of hardware, with equally old software. this messes with various processes like /proc/stat and ps, but it also throws errors ever time I try to update anything or build source packages. I'm currently trying to patch the kernel, and update the OS.
Messages include things like:
tar: kernel/lib/modules/3.14.28-g6327cdab/build/virt/kvm/vfio.c:
time stamp 2022-12-06 23:30:58 is 63926203.378766698 s in the future
is this something that will prevent me from installing the kernel? do i need to concern myself with this?
current kernel is 2.6.35.
trying to sync the clock:
#hwclock --debug
hwclock from util-linux 2.20.1
hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed: No such file or directory
No usable clock interface found.
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
hwclock
. to answer your specific questions ... 1. it might; 2. maybe - try setting the date manually before doing anything/dev/rtc
might need to be a symbolic link to/dev/rtc0
... unless there are nortc
device files in/dev
at all, in which case eitherudev
is not creating them automatically, or the platform driver for your RTC is not configured in the kernel.