On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:12:35PM +0100, Gerhard Brauer wrote: > Hello, > > i've noticed this meanwhile quiet often after many installations. > Currently after a test with 2008.03-0.3, but also with older ISOs: > > After install and first reboot i got such fsck notice during rc: > > ,---- > | /dev/sda3: Superblock last mount time is in the future. FIXED > | /dev/sda3 has gone 49710 days without being checked, check forced. > `---- > > Here¹ you could download a screenshot from such a situation where also a > reboot is required after fsck. > Cause this is the *first* reboot after installation users will get a bad > impression about Arch. > > First i thought this comes from vmware, but i also get it in virtualbox > and i've seen this also during real installations. > > I have a suspicion: During (c)fdisk and formatting the disks current locale > and timezone is set to US values (don't know at the moment the initial > settings presented in rc.conf). > During configuration i set my locale and timezone always to de_DE.utf8 > and Europe/Berlin. And when first reboot is made that from umounting / > there is a time difference that could cause such and flag it on ext3 > partition? > Or with the order in rc scripts? > > Maybe also that the hwclock is changed during/after installation... > > Have others also seen such? > > ¹ http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/screen.png > > -- > Don't drink and root! > Yes i used to get that all the time. I think its somehow related to changes in tzdata that happened around a year ago. This only appears if you set the HARDWWARECLOCK to UTC as far as i can tell. Even though i dont have Widnows installed localtime works better for me, no such issues and plus the clock uses the correct time. UTC is 2 hours ahead. Greg
