ACPI 20030424 killed hwclock on my tosh L2 L2 - indefinite hang. Using RH9: Add --directisa to hwclock in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt.
For other dist, grep for hwclock in initscripts and change relevant scripts.
Regards
Michael Frank
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