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Came across a very cool video posted on http://tastyblogsnack.com/2008/03/27/the-seo-rapper/.

I always forget how to do this and subsequent updates bugger things up.

We are trying to tell the system that the hardware clock is set to UTC.

Edit the following: /etc/default/rcS. Modify UTC to read UTC=yes (or no depending on what you are trying to achieve).

Some additional good resources for time:  Debian Administration and the Debian online docs.

More 2.6.25 issues…

Attempt to build nvidia module for kernel 2.6.25.1 failed. The nvidia installer needs to be patched as described here. After this. just build and install as normal and all is well.

I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.6.24.4 to 2.6.25.1. In trying to rebuild vmware server against the new kernel, i came up with a few issues.

A bit of digging uncovered this: http://lenrek.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/vmware-105-and-kernel-2625/. It got me up and running quite nicely.

Small point to note – i used to apply the vmware-any-any-update-116 patch and then run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl. Patches for the 2.6.25 kernel do not apply to a patched vmware-server install. i ran without the any-any patch and all worked fine nonetheless.

Finally, as i normally do i executed the following to ensure correct operation of the console:

cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0
mv libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0.old
ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 libpng12.so.0
cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
mv libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1.old
ln -sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1