Bug#767593: timedatectl: does not notice corrupted zoneinfo files

2015-03-28 Thread Marco d'Itri 
Control: tag -1 upstream help

On Nov 01, David Schmitt da...@dasz.at wrote:

 Given that zoneinfo files have an obvious magic number and the garbage file
 hadn't one, it'd be really great if timedatectl could do basic sanity checks
 before loading the file and creating an invalid configuration.
This is a worthwhile enhancement, but the Debian systemd maintainers 
cannot allocate resources to work on this.
I recommend that you submit a patch to the upstream maintainers 
upstream.

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Marco


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Bug#767593: timedatectl: does not notice corrupted zoneinfo files

2014-11-01 Thread David Schmitt 

Package: systemd
Version: 215-5+b1
Severity: minor

Hi,

due to local problems, my zoneinfo file was corrupted (content replaced 
with garbage). Setting the timezone with timedatectl set-timezone lead 
to the timezone being set to UTC, but using the correct name.


root@zion:/etc# timedatectl # correct here.
  Local time: Sam 2014-11-01 11:54:45 CET
  Universal time: Sam 2014-11-01 10:54:45 UTC
RTC time: Sam 2014-11-01 10:54:45
   Time zone: CET (CET, +0100)
 NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no
  DST active: no
 Last DST change: DST ended at
  Son 2014-10-26 02:59:59 CEST
  Son 2014-10-26 02:00:00 CET
 Next DST change: DST begins (the clock jumps one hour forward) at
  Son 2015-03-29 01:59:59 CET
  Son 2015-03-29 03:00:00 CEST
root@zion:/etc# ls -la timezone localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Nov  1 11:50 localtime - 
../usr/share/zoneinfo/CET

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4 Nov  1 11:50 timezone
root@zion:/etc# timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Vienna
root@zion:/etc# date
Sam Nov  1 10:54:56 UTC 2014
root@zion:/etc# timedatectl # valid, but not what's intended
  Local time: Sam 2014-11-01 10:55:01 UTC
  Universal time: Sam 2014-11-01 10:55:01 UTC
RTC time: Sam 2014-11-01 10:55:01
   Time zone: Europe/Vienna (UTC, +)
 NTP enabled: yes
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no
  DST active: n/a
root@zion:/etc# ls -la timezone localtime


Given that zoneinfo files have an obvious magic number and the garbage 
file hadn't one, it'd be really great if timedatectl could do basic 
sanity checks before loading the file and creating an invalid 
configuration.




Thanks and regards, David
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