I had thought that RPCEmu read its time and date from its host but, a
few days ago, I saw that the clock of my RPCEmu0810/RO520 installation
differed from its Win7 host clock, by more than an hour.
To fix this, I went to Configure > 'Time and date' and changed 'Set
manually' to 'Set from the network'. When I clicked 'Set', the RPCEmu
clock immediately corrected itself, so I assumed that all was well, and
forgot about the change.
However, yesterday, when I started RPCEmu0810/RO520 the boot sequence
aborted, just after the appearance of the desktop, and a Windows-type
error, from RPCEmu, reported 'Bad opcode 1441435452 at 20182480'. On
clearing the error, RPCEmu crashed, and disappeared.
I eventually discovered that HostFS:$.!Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks.TimeSetup
was the cause of the problem. That file is generated automatically from
Configure > 'Time and date' settings. Having deleted the active contents
of TimeSetup, to return to 'Set manually', RPCEmu boots normally again.
When 'Set from the network' is chosen, TimeSetup contains:
| This file was automatically generated by !TimeSetup
| Format:5
| Locality:UTC+00:00_UK_'GMT'
| ServerSelector:0
Set NetTime$Server pool.ntp.org
SetEval NetTime$Loaded 1
RMEnsure NetTime 0.39 X RMLoad System:Modules.Network.NetTime
RMEnsure NetTime 0.39 SetEval NetTime$Loaded 0
If <NetTime$Loaded> Then NetTime_PollInterval 86400
The NetTime module is active:
*help nettime
==> Help on keyword NetTime
Module is: NetTime 0.40 (10 Apr 2012)
Commands provided:
NetTime_Kick NetTime_Status NetTime_PollInterval
I should be grateful for comments: Is this problem a bug, in RPCEmu?
What are the recommended settings for Configure > 'Time and date'?
Tony
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