Bug#543261: gnome-system-tools: Timezone field is always blank

[Enrico Zini]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.22.1-5
Severity: normal

Hello,

thank you for maintaining gnome-system-tools.

When I go in System/Administration/Time and date, the timezone field is empty.
I then click on it, select a timezone, click close (even tried moving to
another field first, just to avoid hitting #502135) and if I go to Time and
date again, it is again blank.

dpkg-reconfigure tzdata instead works perfectly.

Cheers,

Enrico


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.26.2-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.14-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-4            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-4           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.2-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.1-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.26.3-1          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liboobs-1-4            2.22.0-2          GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3+b1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  perl                   5.10.0-24         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  policykit-gnome        0.9.2-2           GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit
ii  system-tools-backends  2.6.0-6.1         System Tools to manage computer co
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.24.0.1-5 utilities to configure the GNOME d

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools suggests:
ii  ntp                     1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-2 Network Time Protocol daemon and u
ii  samba-common            2:3.3.4-1        common files used by both the Samb
pn  wvdial                  <none>           (no description available)

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