[arch-general] apcupsd or rtkit - Caused time to go haywire on shutdown/reboot??

[Leonid Isaev]

On (10/18/11 15:49), David C. Rankin wrote:
-~> On 10/18/2011 03:05 PM, Leonid Isaev wrote:
-~> >Well, a simple search shows that rtkit has an open bug report,
-~> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698040, which explains why you have
-~> >its logs in UTC. Regarding the rest, are you saying the system spontaneously
-~> >rebooted after a successfull recovery from power outage? Also, what does grep
-~> >"system clock" /var/log/messages.log say?
-~> 
-~> Yes, after looking further, the rtc issue didn't bother me. I knew
-~> that was just timezone offset stuff. The big issue was the reboot
-~> and the 8 hour disparity instead of 5. The system clock
-~> information in the logs is puzzling as well:
-~> 
-~> 15:45 providence:~> sudo grep 'system clock' /var/log/everything.log
-~> Oct 18 17:28:06 providence kernel: [    1.676407] rtc_cmos 00:05:
-~> setting system clock to 2011-10-18 22:27:16 UTC (1318976836)
-~> Oct 18 19:15:10 providence kernel: [    1.676460] rtc_cmos 00:05:
-~> setting system clock to 2011-10-19 00:14:30 UTC (1318983270)
-~> Oct 18 20:26:06 providence kernel: [    1.676356] rtc_cmos 00:05:
-~> setting system clock to 2011-10-19 01:25:40 UTC (1318987540)
-~> Oct 18 20:28:10 providence kernel: [    1.676507] rtc_cmos 00:05:
-~> setting system clock to 2011-10-19 01:27:56 UTC (1318987676)
-~> Oct 18 20:37:40 providence kernel: [    1.676403] rtc_cmos 00:05:
-~> setting system clock to 2011-10-19 01:37:26 UTC (1318988246)
-~> 
-~>   That's 3 spontaneous reboots in 11 minutes. Something is really off.
-~> 
-~> -- 
-~> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Nothing puzzling here: the kernel is working correctly but your RTC is wrong
(no idea how this could happen though). If by "spontaneous" you mean "no errors
in the logs", then it's a hardware problem. As a first step, I would kill
apcupsd and get rid of UPS.

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