[vdr] wakealarm stopped working on 21 dec 2009.. ?!?!

[Christoph Haubrich]

Am 23.12.2009 10:56, Travel Factory S.r.l. schrieb:
> I noticed that my vdr server was running when it shouldn't, so I reached the console and forced a "power off"... the server shutdown but then powerup immediately. This happened several times until I discovered that my OpenSuse 11.0 was not accemptin wakeup timers from 22 december... 
>
> echo $1 > /..../wakealarm 
> accepts value for $1 up to 21 december and refuses to accept values bigger than that (in seconds, of course). I looked for infos on google but found nothing.... I can't say if it's a motherboard problem or linux problem... anyone has a clue ?
>
> Thanks,
> Francesco
>   
I remember that I  had the same problem one year ago: it turned out that 
there is a bug in  rtc_time_to_tm() in kernel 2.6.25 which is used by 
OpenSuSE 11.0 (at least last year). It looks like the solution needed 
several steps and it was solved completely in kernel 2.6.28.
I solved it last year by installing the OpenSuse 11.1 kernel packages 
(2.6.27.7) onto OpenSuse 11.0.

Regards
Christoph