Listmates, I have been chasing my tail on the madwifi issue and I think I have found the problem. It's not madwifi at all, it's the timezone handling. My box is dual-boot, Arch - Vista. Accordingly, the hardware clock is set to localtime: LOCALE="en_US.utf8" HARDWARECLOCK="local" USEDIRECTISA="no" TIMEZONE="America/Chicago" KEYMAP="us" However, I have been dumped into the recovery console each time I have booted for the past day or so. I wasn't alarmed at first because I have several hard drives for the box and I switch back and forth. One drive just contains linux so the hwclock is set to UTC for that setup and then set two localtime for the two other dual-boot drives. So when I reinstall a drive, it isn't uncommon to need to reset the clock and run fsck to get the hwclock and system happy for the new config. While trouble-shooting the madwifi issue, I booted again this morning and was again dumped into the recovery console to run fsck again. Looking at the clock, something had set the clock backwards 5 hours. (American/Chicago -6, +1 for daylight savings = -5 tz offset). This should not have happened. I know this is related to something in a recent update. The pacman log is here: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/config/wireless/pacman.log.bz2 I noticed this morning that another tzdata update: tzdata-2009m-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz But this did fix the problem. It seems no matter what I do, each time I boot, the time gets adjusted backwards by the zoneinfo offset. I have set/confirmed the hardware and sys clocks: [13:05 alchemy:/home/david] # date Tue Sep 22 13:09:56 CDT 2009 [13:09 alchemy:/home/david] # date -u Tue Sep 22 18:09:59 UTC 2009 [13:09 alchemy:/home/david] # hwclock -r Tue 22 Sep 2009 01:10:06 PM CDT -1.000347 seconds and I have set hwclock --localtime and confirmed the same time setting with --systohc, but still, each time I boot, the time is 5 hours in the past. I have confirmed /etc/localtime is in fact the same as /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago: [13:10 alchemy:/home/david] # diff /etc/localtime /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Chicago So, I'm stumped. I certainly haven't changed any of the Arch settings for timezone handling since I installed arch in what -- March/April? So why all of a sudden is Arch subtracting 5 hours from my hwclock on either shutdown or boot? I know the checks are done in /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.shutdown, but what could have changed to make Arch want to treat the box as if the time were set to UTC? What else to check? Any help would be greatly appreciated. (this time I have made an effor to post everything possibly relevant, so if I have missed something you would like to see, just ask, no need to yell) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
