[Bug 600410] Re: BIOS "power on at specified time" stops working if "tzdata" not updated after 14 days

[Benjamin Drung]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

I am really puzzled how a pending update for tzdata could cause this
behavior. Do you still have that server and experience this problem?

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

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Title:
  BIOS "power on at specified time" stops working if "tzdata" not
  updated after 14 days

Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: tzdata

  My backup server is configured in BIOS to auto power on at 0300 daily
  and backup my main server.

  I recently realised that for the last week it has not been powering on
  and running backups.  When I look in the syslog I can see that it was
  running fine until a week ago and has not powered on since.

  "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows one package "tzdata" awaiting
  installation on this machine.  I can see that this package became
  available 2 weeks before BIOS auto power on stopped working - it was
  reported as available for 14 days and on the 15th day (and every day
  since) the auto power on did not happen.

  Having manually installed the "tzdata" update, the server is now
  working correctly again.

  The exact same problem happened many months ago and by looking back
  through logs I can see that again it happened 14 days after a "tzdata"
  update became available.  On that previous occasion when I installed
  this package manually the server again started powering up correctly.

  As such there seems to be some link between "tzdata" packages
  available but not installed, and the ability of BIOS auto power on to
  function correctly.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Jun 30 22:54:21 2010
  SourcePackage: tzdata

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