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by FE » Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:11:32

Hi,
Whenever my system boots up, it displays the incorrect time. When I
set the time manually through the GUI, the mouse stops working - i.e.
I cannot left click and drag. Nor am I able to perform any tasks which
require a click and drag motion. I have been trying to solve this
problem since quite some time but to no avail. The ntpd also fails.
Since my system has a lot of things which are time dependent, i would
really appreciate any help in solving this problem.
Thank you.

by **Mykroft Holmes I** » Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:08:08

> Hi,
> Whenever my system boots up, it displays the incorrect time. When I
> set the time manually through the GUI, the mouse stops working - i.e.
> I cannot left click and drag. Nor am I able to perform any tasks which
> require a click and drag motion. I have been trying to solve this
> problem since quite some time but to no avail. The ntpd also fails.
> Since my system has a lot of things which are time dependent, i would
> really appreciate any help in solving this problem.
> Thank you.

Fix the Time in your BIOS. If that still results in an incorrect time, set
your BIOS time to GMT and make sure you configured the correct Timezone.

Adam

by **cdondanvill** » Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:59:08

If your BIOS time is off, you may want to check the battery as well....

>>Hi,
>>Whenever my system boots up, it displays the incorrect time. When I
>>set the time manually through the GUI, the mouse stops working - i.e.
>>I cannot left click and drag. Nor am I able to perform any tasks which
>>require a click and drag motion. I have been trying to solve this
>>problem since quite some time but to no avail. The ntpd also fails.
>>Since my system has a lot of things which are time dependent, i would
>>really appreciate any help in solving this problem.
>>Thank you.

> Fix the Time in your BIOS. If that still results in an incorrect time, set
> your BIOS time to GMT and make sure you configured the correct Timezone.

> Adam

by **Allen McInto** » Fri, 31 Jan 2003 02:39:23

>Whenever my system boots up, it displays the incorrect time. When I
>set the time manually through the GUI, the mouse stops working - i.e.
>I cannot left click and drag. Nor am I able to perform any tasks which
>require a click and drag motion. I have been trying to solve this
>problem since quite some time but to no avail. The ntpd also fails.
>Since my system has a lot of things which are time dependent, i would
>really appreciate any help in solving this problem.

Weird stuff can happen when you step the clock. My guess is that there
is some timeout code that gets confused. This isn't limited to 8.0.
I've run into it in 7.3 also. Once you get to the point where you can
boot without stepping the clock you should be OK. You could try
hwclock --systohc
just before you reboot.

If your clock is too far off, ntpd figures something is wrong and bails out.
You can tell it that it's allowed to do a big step once, but you're better
off fixing the problem first.

You don't say how far off the clock is, and whether or not you are
dual-booting with Microsoft.

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