Cannot access the Hardware Clcok via any known method. - Raspberry Pi

[FailWhale]

So, I got a Raspberry Pi recently and decided to put Kali on it. Installation went well, selected all English and American options during installation, everything's cool. Except I've discovered that my language, date, and time settings are all whack. I was able to fix my language problems, but my date and time both reset after every single restart. For some reason, it resets to 'Fri 29 Nov 2019 10:33:00 AM CST' every time I restart the device. I've tried many different things I found online with the 'date' command and the 'timedatectl' command, but neither seem to make permanent changes. I suspect it has something to do with my Hardware Clock, but I have no access to it. I've tried using 'hwclock' commands with sudo, but I get the same error (in the title) every time, no matter what I try.

After trying

sudo hwclock --verbose

I get an output of

hwclock from util-linux 2.34
System Time: 1575045809.932463
Trying to open: /dev/rtc0
Trying to open: /dev/rtc
Trying to open: /dev/misc/rtc
No usable clock interface found.
hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock vis any known method.

Anyone know what I can do to fix this? I will warn you that I'm very new to Linux, especially Debian, but I like to think I catch on faster than most people. Thanks in advance.

[Theferma337]

Same problem here. Looking forward any solution

[sneaky]

I have just installed Kali on my Raspberry Pi and sort of having same problem but new zealand time now is 04.34 pm and kali clock says 03.34 am and the same
sudo hwclock --verbose as you so I am looking forward to any solution as well.

my Raspberry Pi is Pi B+

Thank you

[steev]

The raspberrypi does not have a hardware clock, unless you purchase some sort of rtc/rtc hat for it. I would suggest installing the package "chrony" and enabling the service.

[sneaky]

The raspberrypi does not have a hardware clock, unless you purchase some sort of rtc/rtc hat for it. I would suggest installing the package "chrony" and enabling the service.

Hi ARM guy

I tried this in ternamal and got this


root@kali:~# apt install chrony
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package chrony

is there Another way of doing it

Thank you
Ian

[steev]

Try need to run apt update first, so that it updates the repos to what are latest.

root@kali:~# apt updateHit:1 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Hit:2 http://http.re4son-kernel.com/re4son kali-pi InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
root@kali:~# apt install chrony
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libopts25 sntp
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  networkd-dispatcher
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ntp
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  chrony
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 229 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,604 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

[sneaky]

Try need to run apt update first, so that it updates the repos to what are latest.

root@kali:~# apt updateHit:1 http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling InRelease
Hit:2 http://http.re4son-kernel.com/re4son kali-pi InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
root@kali:~# apt install chrony
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libopts25 sntp
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  networkd-dispatcher
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  ntp
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  chrony
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 229 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,604 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

Hi steev

This is what I got after apt upgrade
oot@kali:~# apt install chrony
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
networkd-dispatcher
The following NEW packages will be installed:
chrony
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 326 not upgraded.
Need to get 218 kB of archives.
After this operation, 406 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://wlglam.fsmg.org.nz/kali kali-rolling/main armhf chrony armhf 3.5-5 [218 kB]
Fetched 218 kB in 1s (265 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package chrony.
(Reading database ... 241575 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../chrony_3.5-5_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking chrony (3.5-5) ...
Setting up chrony (3.5-5) ...
Creating '_chrony' system user/group for the chronyd daemon?


Creating config file /etc/chrony/chrony.conf with new version


Creating config file /etc/chrony/chrony.keys with new version
update-rc.d: We have no instructions for the chrony init script.
update-rc.d: It looks like a network service, we disable it.
chrony.service is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it.
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.0-2) ...
Processing triggers for kali-menu (2020.1.7) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (244-3) ..

Just unsure to what to do from here had a look at chrony.conf chrony.keys
but don't now what yo do with them to get chrony to work and get my
network active again connected but no internet.

Thank you
Ian

[steev]

You need to enable the service with systemctl enable chrony - then either reboot, or start it manually with systemctl start chrony.