zoneinfo, separate /usr partition, rc files

[yukinojo]

Hi all,

I've been happily running my Gentoo 1.2 installation for a few months now, running emerge once a day to synch up. About two days ago, my clock stops synchronizing, even though the config files are correct and the BIOS clock has not been changed. At the point where I can login to the system, 'date' shows an incorrect date (in UTC), while 'hwclock' shows the right one. 'hwclock --hctosys' fix the problem until the system is restarted, and the same thing happened again.

Putting a trace in /etc/init.d/clock shows that the command invoked was correct: 'hwclock --hctosys --localtime', and the hardware clock right after that point is also correct. 'date' at that point however, shows UTC as the timezone.

After trying a few things unsuccessfully, I tried to copy the zoneinfo file directly as /etc/localtime, and voila! that seems to fix the problem. The system does have a separate /usr partition, so I'm suspecting that /usr may not have been mounted at that point, and the system reverted back to the default UTC timezone.

I haven't tried to re-confirm this by putting in traces in the rc files, so just wondering if anyone can comment on this? What is the rc file invocation order in Gentoo?

Thanks!

[pjp]

Welcome aboard.

[yukinojo]