[Bug 1227520] Re: Timezone changes are not working due to ro /etc and bind mounts

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 06:44:54AM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/livecd-
> rootfs/trunk/revision/848 gets along fine with a nonexistent
> /etc/adjtime, but will move it to /etc/writable if it is present. That
> seems right to me, as a non-writable /etc/adjtime is totally useless. If
> this isn't supposed to be in the phone images, we can throw it out of
> the patch of course (just drop it from the for loop). Steve, any opinion
> on that?

Please drop it from the patch.  live-build has already been fixed not to
create it, so there's no reason for livecd-rootfs to include handling.

> I checked this now. timedated does not touch /etc/adjtime for changing
> timezones, so this isn't a concern for the purposes of this bug. It only
> creates/updates /etc/adjtime when calling "timedatectl set-local-rtc
> yes", and removes it again on "no", for storing the LOCAL flag. If we
> don't want that, I'm happy to take this out, but please let's not block
> this bug on that. It has already taken way more time than necessary to
> land this.

Agreed, this should be changed but should not block this bug.

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Title:
  Timezone changes are not working due to ro /etc and bind mounts

Status in “android” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “initramfs-tools-ubuntu-touch” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “livecd-rootfs” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “lxc-android-config” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “systemd” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “ubuntu-system-settings” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  There is no way to set up a different timezone than automatic in the
  System Settings

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubuntu-system-settings 0.1+13.10.20130910.3-0ubuntu1
  Uname: Linux 3.4.0-3-mako armv7l
  ApportVersion: 2.12.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: armhf
  Date: Thu Sep 19 08:41:07 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-18 (0 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Saucy Salamander (development branch) - armhf (20130918)
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=linux
   PATH=(custom, no user)
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-system-settings
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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