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 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

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 # co