Comment 3 for bug 421371

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 421371] [NEW] timestamp mismatch of fs superblock at file system check

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On Sun, 2009-08-30 at 10:42 +0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:

> seen with current karmic 20090830, this is an upgraded system. when a
> fsck of the root file system is required, I get a message "fsck
> required, timestamp of fs superblock is in the future", and a fsck -y
> <rootfs> is needed as a manual action. Looking at the timestamps (now,
> and for the superblock, it's a difference of 2h - a few seconds). The
> local timezone is +2, so I assume that this is a problem with
> timestamps. Didn't investigate further.
>
Please supply the exact output of fsck, including the timestamps (it
should display both).

Also at this prompt please run "/sbin/hwclock --debug --show", "date"
and "cat /etc/default/rcS"

Has this machine previously had Windows installed? Did you verify that
the Hardware Clock was correct at the time you installed?

Scott
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