Something has bust! The clock on Gnome panel can't keep time. With every re-boot a different hour. Same (and correct) day.

This line appears 3 times:

Boot time shows: mknod failed to create device, null, zero.

I googled.com/linux: for mknod failed to create. Somebody upgraded their bios (Compaq). I'm sure I have a Dell. No problem.

Associated with this may be the modem-lights applet shows the time but not throughput.

Is there a way to capture the boot time in a log file and paste it here?

Yes, yes, I'll remove "rhgb".

Thanking Linux support community since January 21st, 2006.

As far as the clock is concerned it sounds like your mohterboard's battery may need to be replaced. You can check this by restarting the computer, get the CMOS BIOS setup utilty running and set the clock to the actual time. It helps if you have an independent clock on hand. Then turn off the computer for a few minutes. Then start the computer and check the time on the real time clock. If the time is off by more than a few seconds from what it should be then you probably need a new motherboard battery. Note that I'm allowing a few seconds skew because these motherboard clocks are junk and are not particularly accurate.

No sir, not by a long shot. The kernel or whatever messages are put on the screen at boot-time reports words like this:

No audit systemsomething or other

No netlink socket

I'm sure this is the root of the problem.

Anybody know were all that information about boot-time is logged into a file, so it could be posted and resolved?

Anybody know were all that information about boot-time is logged into a file
Look in /etc/syslog.conf and it'll prolly say /var/log/boot.log.


The kernel or whatever messages are put on the screen at boot-time reports words like this
Repost exact messages?


If you want an independant clock install ntpd and it'll try to combat time skew.