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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:30:30 -0600 (MDT)
From: Barak Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu>
To: maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: split hwclock into own package
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.9w-1
Priority: wishlist

Upon installing Debian on a new flat panel SGI Visual Workstation,
with its very unusual hardware for a PC, I found that "hwclock"
freezes forever, as shown below.

It would be nice to be able to tell people to just
 "dpkg --purge hwclock"
as hwclock is logically is a rather low-priority matter, and needn't
be in an essential package.

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# strace hwclock --show
execve("/sbin/hwclock", ["hwclock", "--show"], [/* 33 vars */]) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x804ed04
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=5432, ...}) = 0
mmap(0, 5432, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4000c000
close(3)                                = 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 3
mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4000e000
munmap(0x4000e000, 4096)                = 0
mmap(0, 673220, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4000e000
mprotect(0x400a0000, 75204, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap(0x400a0000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x91000) = 0x400a0000
mmap(0x400a7000, 46532, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400a7000
close(3)                                = 0
munmap(0x4000c000, 5432)                = 0
personality(PER_LINUX)                  = 0
getpid()                                = 13471
gettimeofday({936995087, 127367}, NULL) = 0
getuid()                                = 0
open("/dev/rtc", O_RDONLY)              = 3
close(3)                                = 0
open("/dev/rtc", O_RDONLY)              = 3
ioctl(3, 0x7003, 0)                     = 0
read(3,