On 12/11/2016 09:01 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: > > greetings. > > centos 6.8 > kde 4.3.4 > toshiba satellite l4550-s5976 laptop > > > - part 1: clock losing time > }} John and Jonathon, thank you for replies. both of you were helpful in refreshing my chemo brain. seems that chemo can also effect long term memory. 8=\ had i known just how deep chemo can effect ones body, i may have moved to Denver for cure. B=) seems problem has now gone away after a couple of reboots and is holding after many more. as for other problems, i decided to rsync my partitions on laptop to tower box and install fresh with 6.8 dvd 1 & 2. while at it, also decided to repartition hdd to /boot, /swap, /, and /home. all went well with rsync moving partitioning paths back into /home. now have a new problem from update attempt, with error message of; Error: database disk image is malformed which will be "Subject:" of new post coming shortly. thanks again for you help. much appreciated. -- The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein CentOS GNU/Linux 6.8 KDE 4.3.4 peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= Tired of having your microsoft os hacked? Change to Linux os, used by microsoft hackers. =+= If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! =+= in a world with out fences, who needs gates. =+=