Reproducible problem in Kubuntu

[James Cain]

Here is the latest update from the Kubuntu forum, along with test results
and a patch / solution. Posting it here for the bump it needs :)

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62995-Wrong-time-zone-on-your-clock-Help-Kubuntu-devs-create-a-fix&p=330437&viewfull=1#post330437

 - James Cain



On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Steve Riley <steve at rileyz.net> wrote:

> On 2013-06-14 00:10:20 Harald Sitter <sitter.harald at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Steve Riley <steve at rileyz.net> wrote:
> >
> > > On 2013-06-13 15:27:22 James Cain <james.cain.25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Volkan Gezer <
> volkangezer at gmail.com
> > > >wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 2013/6/13 Harald Sitter <sitter.harald at gmail.com>:
> > > > > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Steve Riley <steve at rileyz.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> On 2013-06-05 00:55:30 Harald Sitter <apachelogger at ubuntu.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > >> >
> > > > > >> > without a system that has broken timezones after an uprade but
> > > did not
> > > > > >> > get
> > > > > >> > fixed yet it is nigh impossible to find out whether the
> KCM/zic
> > > are at
> > > > > >> > fault or something else is going terribly wrong.
> > > > > >>
> > > > > >> What would you need to see? I can try to gather something next
> time
> > > > > >> someone on the forum reports the problem.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Ah, sorry, forgot to reply -.-
> > > > > >
> > > > > > this command should generate output with all relevant information
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ls -l /etc/timezone; cat /etc/timezone; echo""; echo ""; ls -l
> > > > > /etc/adjtime;
> > > > > > cat /etc/adjtime; echo ""; ls -l /etc/localtime; cat `readlink
> > > > > > /etc/localtime`
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Can this bug also be relevant to this problem?
> > > > >
> > > > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1184729
> > > > >
> > > > > > HS
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Somehow we need to connect the users having the issue with the devs
> to
> > > work
> > > > together to solve the problem. Maybe we could all pick up the
> discussion
> > > > over at the relevant forum post that Steve Riley mentioned earlier:
> > > > http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62171#post324366.
> Unless it
> > > IS
> > > > an upstream issue then I guess it needs to be dealt with there.
> Although
> > > > the bug was reported on April, nothing appears to have happened with
> it
> > > to
> > > > date: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318709.
> > > >
> > > > However I would say from a user's perspective it's a pretty annoying
> bug.
> > > >
> > > > - James
> > >
> > >
> > > I had started to write a forum post requesting people to provide the
> > > information in Harald's command. However, there appears to be a
> problem.
> > > /etc/localtime isn't a link on my machine, it's a normal file:
> > >
> > > steve at t520:~$ ls -l /etc/localtime
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2819 Apr 26 15:52 /etc/localtime
> > >
> > > Because it's a normal file, readlink returns nothing:
> > >
> > > steve at t520:~$ readlink /etc/localtime
> > > steve at t520:~$
> > >
> > > And cat `readlink localtime` just causes the shell to wait until I
> press
> > > Ctrl+C.
> > >
> > > The above is from my 13.04 laptop. I checked my Ubuntu 12.04 server,
> same
> > > situation. However, on my Arch build, /etc/localtime is, in fact, a
> symlink
> > > to a zoneinfo file.
> > >
> > > So before I post something to the forum, is there an alternate
> suggestion
> > > for what to do with /etc/localtime?
> >
> >
> > that is the expected behavior on a proper system
> >
> > if someone feels like expanding the line to handle that be my guest,
> > otherwise just tell peple to ctrl+c if nothing happens ;)
> >
> > HS
>
>
> Okie dokie.
>
> New forum thread here: http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?62995
>
> ...Steve
>
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