Difference between revisions of "Ubuntu Xen System Boot Hangs After Setting System Clock Message"

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Revision as of 13:42, 26 April 2008

After installing the Ubuntu xen-server packages and rebooting the operating system using the Xen kernel the boot process appears to hang after displaying the "Setting system clock..." message.

This is a problem related to the hwclock binary which is common to a number of different Linux distributions in addition to Ubuntu.

One way to resolve this problem is to remove startup links to hwclock.sh and hwclockfirst.sh:

sudo update-rc.d -f hwclock.sh remove
sudo update-rc.d -f hwclockfirst.sh remove

Another option is to simply edit the two system initialization files:

init.d/hwclockfirst.sh  
init.d/hwclock.sh

and place a exit 0 line immediately after the #!/bin/sh. For example:

#!/bin/sh
exit 0

Once one of these sets of changes has been made to both the hwclockfirst.sh and hwclock.sh, files simply reboot the system and Ubuntu should boot fully without hanging.