[Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Steve Langasek]

Unable to reproduce, no new information in > 1year; closing invalid to
knock this off the list.  Please reopen if more info becomes available.

** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Invalid

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[Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Steve Langasek]

FYI, I've now done an upgrade of a system from
edgy->feisty->gutsy->hardy, and at no point did /etc/timezone disappear.
Given that /etc/timezone has been present out-of-the-box since at least
edgy, and all of the relevant maintainer scripts handle it correctly,
this bug basically requires some package or script to have gone out of
its way to remove the file; so I'm at a loss on how to proceed here.

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Re: [Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Martin Pool]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Steve Langasek
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would also note that there probably isn't any particular correlation
>  with NSW, beyond the fact that NSW has just gone through a DST change
>  under a new set of DST rules, so this is the precise set of people who
>  are going to be noticing the problem right now.

I agree.

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[Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Steve Langasek]

I would also note that there probably isn't any particular correlation
with NSW, beyond the fact that NSW has just gone through a DST change
under a new set of DST rules, so this is the precise set of people who
are going to be noticing the problem right now.

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[Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Steve Langasek]

The time and date panel has been fixed with the upload of system-tools-
backends 2.6.0-0ubuntu6, and will now create a copy instead of a
symlink.

I don't have any reason to believe this is connected to the bug of
/etc/localtime existing without /etc/timezone.

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[Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Martin Pool]

Correction: dpkg-reconfigure does not make a symlink, but the Gnome time
and date panel does.

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[Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Martin Pool]

I also encountered this, on an i386 machine that was freshly installed
from a feisty cd last year, then upgraded to gutsy and then to hardy in
the usual way.  It's a desktop machine so I have probably never changed
the timezone since it was installed.

I have dpkg.log going back to at least May 2007.

Quite a few people in NSW have hit this it seems.

Note that despite Robert's initial comment, after reconfiguring the
package localtime is in fact a symlink.

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Re: [Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 23:02 +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Robert, we do need to know at least whether this was an upgrade, and if
> so from which release, so that we can at least have some basic idea of
> where to start investigating.

I installed this machine somewhat haphazardly, it was having boot
problems from the amd64 cd's. I am *fairly* sure it was feisty liveCD
that I finally got it up and running from. I'm running a crypted
environment, which ubiquity doesn't natively support, so I partitioned
manually and installed onto that. I think.

> At least in Dennis' case, we're pretty confident that the installer did
> create /etc/timezone, but something seems to have removed it later. This
> could e.g. be a broken maintainer script on upgrade, or it could be a
> desktop configuration utility, or something else. We need your help to
> limit the scope of this somewhat.

Sure. Are there any log files that might record this information?

-Rob

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[Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Colin Watson]

Robert, we do need to know at least whether this was an upgrade, and if
so from which release, so that we can at least have some basic idea of
where to start investigating.

At least in Dennis' case, we're pretty confident that the installer did
create /etc/timezone, but something seems to have removed it later. This
could e.g. be a broken maintainer script on upgrade, or it could be a
desktop configuration utility, or something else. We need your help to
limit the scope of this somewhat.

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[Bug 209429] Re: /etc/timezone does not exist

[Martin Pitt]

Downgrading severity accordingly, since this is a very unusual
condition.

** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
   Importance: High => Medium
   Target: ubuntu-8.04 => None

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