WolvenSpectre
July 10th, 2012, 08:06 PM
OK, about a week or so ago I noticed that the time on my Ubuntu box was well off the mark but the date was still right.
Being a fairly old machine and since I use a Smoothwall Firewall that I just had to rebuild from scratch (settings backup was damaged) I don't have any networking rules for time servers anymore.
My first instinct, BIOS battery in this OLD computer is dying. All other settings in the BIOS were still good, but I replaced the battery anyway.
The problem was still there.
I tried to manually set the time in 12.04 but no matter what I enter it keeps going to 6PM Jan 1, 1970. In the BIOS the reads 2070.
I go into the BIOS and set it there, but when I reboot, again the date is what I set it to in the BIOS, but the time is wrong.
I am using this for a SAMBA File Server on my network and it is bad enough that if it looses its mount status on the data drives or I forget to manually mount the drives every bloody time I reboot I have to remap all my network shares AND juggle files put in non existant shares because I have to do SUDO empowered versions of software to get them to work right on 12.04 ](*,):mad:](*,) but now I can't even set the time! (Sorry Rant over... deep breaths :oops:)
I am really getting to my last straw here with 12.04. As a very casual user who is mostly rooted in the windows world I have had my issues with ubuntu from time to time, but NOTHING like this.
Being a fairly old machine and since I use a Smoothwall Firewall that I just had to rebuild from scratch (settings backup was damaged) I don't have any networking rules for time servers anymore.
My first instinct, BIOS battery in this OLD computer is dying. All other settings in the BIOS were still good, but I replaced the battery anyway.
The problem was still there.
I tried to manually set the time in 12.04 but no matter what I enter it keeps going to 6PM Jan 1, 1970. In the BIOS the reads 2070.
I go into the BIOS and set it there, but when I reboot, again the date is what I set it to in the BIOS, but the time is wrong.
I am using this for a SAMBA File Server on my network and it is bad enough that if it looses its mount status on the data drives or I forget to manually mount the drives every bloody time I reboot I have to remap all my network shares AND juggle files put in non existant shares because I have to do SUDO empowered versions of software to get them to work right on 12.04 ](*,):mad:](*,) but now I can't even set the time! (Sorry Rant over... deep breaths :oops:)
I am really getting to my last straw here with 12.04. As a very casual user who is mostly rooted in the windows world I have had my issues with ubuntu from time to time, but NOTHING like this.