europa

this is the first new CW system purchased for the lab.

It runs fine, but there were a couple hiccups on install.

nscd

i had some problems with nscd miscaching some entries in the passwd at first (it was reporting nothing for getent passwd dkg, when something should clearly have been there). nscd -i passwd cleared it up.

rtc

the rtc module appears to be loaded during the initrd phase somewhere, but it is incapable of setting the system clock on this hardware. switching to another rtc driver (genrtc instead of rtc) allows setting the hwclock. (edit: this appears to be no longer an issue with newer kernels)

given that krb5 relies heavily on synced clocks, this is trouble. On further inspection, i'd expect ntpdate to run at startup, but it doesn't appear to be happening. i'm adding /etc/rcS.d/S51ntpdate to try to avoid those problems. (edit: this is no longer needed, since the NTP overhaul)