Make boot time detection failures non-fatal. Taken from PLD Linux Gentoo bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468444 PLD bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pld-linux/+bug/1034364 Patch: https://github.com/pld-linux/tmpwatch/blob/master/tmpwatch-boottime.patch --- tmpwatch-2.11/tmpwatch.c~ +++ tmpwatch-2.11/tmpwatch.c @@ -666,9 +666,11 @@ time_t boot_time; if (clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &real_clock) != 0 - || clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, &boot_clock) != 0) - message(LOG_FATAL, "Error determining boot time: %s\n", + || clock_gettime(CLOCK_BOOTTIME, &boot_clock) != 0) { + message(LOG_DEBUG, "Error determining boot time: %s\n", strerror(errno)); + socket_kill_time = 0; /* Never remove sockets */ + } else { boot_time = real_clock.tv_sec - boot_clock.tv_sec; if (real_clock.tv_nsec < boot_clock.tv_nsec) boot_time--; @@ -677,6 +679,7 @@ boot_time -= 2; socket_kill_time = boot_time - grace_seconds; + } #else socket_kill_time = 0; /* Never remove sockets */ #endif