[arch-general] Installation: after first reboot ext3 superblock mount time in future

[Roman Kyrylych]

2008/3/30, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:
> 2008/3/29, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks at gmail.com>:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Hmmm...
>  I thought this was fixed long ago...
>  I will try to reproduce the issue in virtual machine.
>  It would be nice if you could provide the time set in your BIOS before
>  install, output of `date` before and after running /arch/setup and
>  after the first install.

FYI, see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/5445

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)