[OLPC New Zealand] [Testing] Testing Summary: 19 November 2011 - Auckland, New Zealand

[Tom Parker]

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 09:07 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 09:53:14PM +1300, Tabitha Roder wrote:
> > os11 on XO-1.75:
> > Clyde [...]
> > 
> > Changed timezone and restarted. Worked in that the time changed, but
> > the time on the computer is wrong.
> >
> > [...]
> > 
> > Moon. Failed to Start.
> > 
> > Ran the diagnostic tests. Most tests pass.
> > [...]
> > The RTC real time clock test failed - why? We are unable to reset the
> > clock in gnome on this laptop -- it seems to be keeping time but
> > thinks it is January 2000. We haven't tried our other XO 1.75
> 
> XO-1.75 B1 had an RTC power down hardware defect
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO1.75_B1_C1_Changes#Fix_RTC_Power
> the effect is to lose the time over a power cycle, which includes an
> operating system reboot.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO_1.75_B1_ECOs#RTC_Problems suggests a fix.
How small is C227 and where is it? I have some experience with 0603
parts and it would be nice to get the clock working on this laptop -- it
is quite nice to use except for all the certificate warnings and the
journal being very unhappy to host files in the future.

> It might also be intermittent and temperature dependent.

It is intermittent and only seems to effect Bonnie, Clyde is still in
2011.

> So that you don't report this unnecessarily in future, please mark Clyde
> as having a forgetful RTC, which will impact:

Will do.