Reproducible problem in Kubuntu

[Steve Riley]

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