From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 19 22:08:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CFC316A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:08:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13CA443D2D for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:08:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rperry4@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-171.75.71.11.dial1.weehawken.level3.net ([171.75.71.11] helo=earthlink.net) by albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Au3pb-0000FI-00; Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:08:12 -0800 Message-ID: <4035A462.1000502@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:08:34 -0500 From: Bob Perry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <017b01c3f4af$2be073d0$0501a8c0@MASAI> <000401c3f518$041f82a0$0200a8c0@satellite> <000f01c3f55b$0406f620$0501a8c0@MASAI> <20040217143532.GA52109@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <00d001c3f5e3$e747f5a0$0501a8c0@MASAI> <20040218100337.GA67139@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040218100337.GA67139@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: dave cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Error 127 During Makeinstall of 4.8 to 4.9 Upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 06:08:31 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:52:48AM -0500, Bob Perry wrote: > > > >>I googled (first time ever for FreeBSD issues) as suggested and found >>the message you referred to. My system date/time was 5 hours off, if I >>remember correctly, so I set the time with 'date 0402172134' and started >>my upgrade again with 'make buildworld'. Everything ran smoothly, >>except for mergemaster...still not 100% with that function yet. I >>rebooted successfully, around 12:30am but my system clock is back to the >>5-hour difference as before reading 5:30 am. Must have set it >>incorrectly. Will have to read the man date page more thoroughly. >> >> > >It sounds to me as if your bios or CMOS clock is set to wall-clock >time, which is the norm for windows systems, rather than to UCT, which >is the norm for Unix systems. We can also deduce that you are >probably located on the US East coast... Since the system clock is set >from the bios clock at reboot time, this explains the observed >symptoms. > >You can fix this behavoiur using /usr/sbin/tzsetup -- the first dialog >asks: > > Is this machines CMOS clock set to UTC? > > I remember running this command during installation. I selected "No" because I wasn't sure and proceeded per installation instructions. >If your machine is dedicated to FreeBSD you should answer 'Yes'. > Selected "Yes" this time around and subsequently set BIOS clock accordingly. > If >you have a Windows partition on the machine that you sometimes boot >into, you should answer 'No'. Then go through and choose an >appropriate timezone for your machine. > >If you answer 'No' to that question, a zero-length file >/etc/wall_cmos_clock will be created, which cues the system to account >for the difference between wall-clock and UCT when referring to the >CMOS clock. > >Otherwise, you should go into your system BIOS and set the clock to >the correct UCT time. > > I rebooted and this seems to work. Thanks, Bob -- FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0