On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 16:04 -0700, byrdca@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have a dual boot Fedora 9 / Win XP Pro box. I notice that when I
> boot to fedora my time is wrong and "System Clock Uses UTC" is still
> checked even though I unchecked it at install time. When attempting
> to clear the "UTC" check box and reset the time with
> system-config-date I get the following error "Failed to synchronize
> hardware clock. This may be because there is no hardware clock
> accessible, e.g. when running in a virtualized environment". I am not
> running in a virtualized environment so I checked the output of the
> following:
>
> hwclock --debug --show
>
> and got the following response
>
> hwclock from util-linux-ng 2.13.1
> hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=2: No such file or directory.
> No usable clock interface found.
> Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
>
> I ran dmesg | grep /dev/rtc and got no hits, I booted hit del to enter
> setup and checked the cmos menu in order to look at the clock and it
> seemed right so I don't think the battery has failed.
>
> output of uname -r is
>
> 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64
>
>
> Does the list have any ideas?
Does the /dev/rtc device file exist? ('ls -l /dev/rtc'). Does the output
of 'cat /proc/devices' contain an rtc line?
Also, 'man MAKEDEV'.
poc
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