Time issue on reboot

[Warren Quin]

Unable to automatically fix sda2, mounting Read Only: fsck 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010)
Root: Superblock last mount time (Sat Feb  7 12:11:08 2026,
now = Wed Feb  4 17:03:36 2026) is in the future.

3 days?

I could see the rtc being bad and resetting but it is always 3 days, not back to whatever the device would consider reset. This happens everytime I have to power down my 320l. It has that issue where the power light just flashes so I have to unplug it, put it in the freezer for 20 minutes, and then we are good to go. But because I unplug it, sometimes I have to fsck and the auto never works because the date is always 3 days out (the above is a sample from a few days ago).

Anybody have an idea?

Thanks in advance

Warren

[Joao Cardoso]

The internal rtc button battery must be exhausted, replace it.

During shutdown the current time is stored in the rtc, to be used at the next power up; as it looks that it  can't be done, the shutdown blocks -- this is your other problem and causes the need to unplug the box, leading to the wrong time.

To solve the 3 days in the future problem, as the normal fsck doesn't solve it you have to use the "force fix" (fsck -y).

You might also try to adjust the time to the one fsck expects, and then trying to mount.

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[Warren Quin]

Ok thanks. I pulled the battery and it meters fine but that is obviously not load. I've just never seen a bad battery in an rtc be 3 days (repeatedly). They always go back to something like 01/01/00 or some such.

The shutdown works with "killall dns320l-daemon" from ssh. I have it in the user/Script to execute on powerup as per the notes somewhere in here but it has no effect so I have to do it manually. It never powers off completely. It still has the power light. There is (probably) a solder issue somewhere in the power section which is why it won't start until it is cold.

Anyhow next time it has to be shut down I will see about changing out the battery regardless...

Thanks again