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| Author: | myth@chakobsa.net [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | stupid bleeping clock |
My Mythtv box was running fine for a week or so, but I decided to use my day off on the 4th of July to do a little maintenance (adding disk space and learning how to use LVM). Well, as a side effect I just learned that the clock gets messed up with every reboot. I hadn't noticed because I'd set the clock correctly after installing R5C7 and didn't give it any further thought (other than generally wondering why I had to set the time twice during the install and still ended up with the wrong time after the install completed.) So I followed some instructions from the wiki but the clock still gets messed up with every reboot. So, as a crude fix, I edited /etc/init.d/bootmisc and added "ntpdate north-america.pool.ntp.org as the last line. What really sucks is that I've never seen the new Doctor Who series and I just happened to find out that the SciFi channel was running a marathon yesterday morning. I thought I might give it a try. So much for that. MythTV caught just the tail end of it. So, the moral of this story is to double check that your system clock survives a reboot otherwise it's not going to be a very good DVR. |
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| Author: | tjc [ Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: stupid bleeping clock |
myth@chakobsa.net wrote: So I followed some instructions from the wiki but the clock still gets messed up with every reboot.
Which instructions? These? http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=ProgramGuideIsOff or something else? If that doesn't work can you set the BIOS clock to UTC from the BIOS config screens and have it hold over a power cycle? Does your motherboard battery need to be replaced? BTW - If you don't know the UTC time off the top of your head you can just ask the system before shutting down to go into the BIOS screens: Code: root@black2:~# TZ=UTC date
Fri Jul 7 01:46:35 UTC 2006 |
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| Author: | mjl [ Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:06 pm ] |
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Hi, Not sure of what is occuring, however if you run as root # tzconfig and set yopur time zone that may help. Also edit your /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh and add a ntpdate -u north-america.pool.ntp.org maybe that will help. the ntpd has trouble resync of the time if it way out in left field. You may want to do a check at the cmos level to ensure the time is utc. Mike |
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| Author: | nybbler [ Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:37 pm ] |
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With R5C7 you can just do an update-rc.d ntpdate start 80 2 3 4 5 . at a root prompt. This will cause ntp to set the clock at each reboot, before starting the ntp daemon. |
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