[PATCH 3/3] Save system time to hardware clock
Vratislav Podzimek
vpodzime at redhat.com
Wed Sep 19 09:52:49 UTC 2012
We need to save system time to hardware clock before doing partitioning
and installing packages. Otherwise, in case of some error, user may end
up with a partitions and data created in future.
Signed-off-by: Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime at redhat.com>
---
pyanaconda/install.py | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
diff --git a/pyanaconda/install.py b/pyanaconda/install.py
index d401e2f..67a6da9 100644
--- a/pyanaconda/install.py
+++ b/pyanaconda/install.py
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ from pyanaconda.progress import progress_report
from pyanaconda.users import createLuserConf, getPassAlgo, Users
from pyanaconda.network import writeNetworkConf
from pyanaconda.flags import flags
+from pyanaconda.timezone import TIME_INIT_THREAD_NAME
+from pyanaconda.threads import threadMgr
+from pyanaconda import iutil
import gettext
_ = lambda x: gettext.ldgettext("anaconda", x)
@@ -97,6 +100,21 @@ def doInstall(storage, payload, ksdata, instClass):
steps += 4 # packages setup, packages, bootloader, post install
progress.send_init(steps)
+ # Save system time to hardware clock before any other steps
+ time_init_thread = threadMgr.get(TIME_INIT_THREAD_NAME)
+ if time_init_thread is not None:
+ # wait until time initialization finishes
+ time_init_thread.join()
+
+ cmd = "hwclock"
+ args = ["--systohc"]
+ if ksdata.timezone.isUtc:
+ args.append("--utc")
+ else:
+ args.append("--local")
+
+ iutil.execWithRedirect(cmd, args, stdout="/dev/tty5", stderr="/dev/tty5")
+
# Do partitioning.
payload.preStorage()
turnOnFilesystems(storage)
--
1.7.11.4
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