[8.050][BUG][OPEN] MantisID: 13221 is back

The UTC clock problem is back. I haven't installed astaro from scratch since the last beta and thought this was fixed. This is how I installed....

1. During the initial setup uncheck hardware clock uses UTC which is selected by default (* in UTC time)
2. My time zone is central time USA

During the initial boot, I get messages

last write time is in the future. (by less than a day, probably due to buggy init scripts)

and a disk check is forced.

Regards
Bill

Edit: Just googled it and this seems to be a wide spread problem in different distros. I guess its not that big of a deal since it only happens during the initial boot and once the ntp fixes the time correctly, it doesn't happen again.

0 Astaro Beta Bot over 14 years ago

Astaro Beta Report

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Version: 8.050

Type: NOTABUG

State: CLOSED

Reporter: Billybob+

Contributor: 

MantisID: 

Target version: 

Fixed in version: 

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0 kbr over 14 years ago

If you reboot your system into the BIOS, what time does it show there? Your local time or something different?
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0 Billybob over 14 years ago in reply to kbr

This is on virtual box and I am not using UTC so the initial clock is set to central time. I believe the problem is in the initial screen (screenshot 4) where it lets you choose if you want to use UTC. Screen shots.....

Screenshots 1-4: Various settings in the initial installer
Screenshot 5: check forced after the time is in the future detected.

Regards
Bill.
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0 kbr over 14 years ago

Ah, Virtualbox... yes Virtualbox indeed has no way to enter the BIOS during boot. We usually do our testing with VMware, where you can still jump into BIOS on boot.

On the other hand Virtualbox gives you a little hint in the configuration dialog, right below that area that you captured with your first screenshot, saying "Unix-Gäste erwarten die Zeit normalerweise in UTC" - roughly translated as "Unix guests usually expect the time to be in UTC".
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0 Billybob over 14 years ago in reply to kbr

Aha, thanks for clarifying. My Bios clock is set to UTC on my regular astaro box so I don't run into this problem. Still interesting to see how minor things make a difference in different software.[:)]

I love virtual box, easy, light weight and works on most regular ISOs thats why I use it plus its free to run anything that is not even vm compliant most of the time thats why I use it instead of vmware.

Regards
Bill.
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