The problem persisted after a 'killall hildon-deskop' but not after a reboot. Well at least not at first. I rotated several times.

When I rebooted, I then connected. As part of the connection, I connect to two jabber accounts and one skype account. OMWeather updates. And I ran rdate to set the time. Now I can't rotate any more.

So I disabled all 3 accounts and removed OMWeather from the desktop and rebooted. Rotation worked. I connected, rotation worked. Then I ran rdate and rotation stopped working.

Re-enabling the IM accounts and OMWeather allowed rotation to continue to work.

I admit that this rdate is of dubious origins. I don't even think I have a .deb anymore, I just have the executable that I restored after the last reflash and SSU install.

What are others using for time synchronization? My RTC is weak on this N810. It doesn't always save the time.

thanks,
Frank