[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Bug#726256: Bug#726256: timedated doesn't support split-usr, uses a symlink for /etc/localtime

[Shawn Landden]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:

> Package: systemd
> Version: 204-1
> Severity: normal
> File: /lib/systemd/systemd-timedated
>
> Changing the timezone information via timedated
> (org.freedesktop.timedate1 or timedatectl) will replace /etc/localtime
> with a symlink to the timezone file in /usr/share/zoneinfo.
>
> That means the file will be dangling symlink during early boot and the
> time might be incorrectly set for systems with a separate /usr.
>
> initramfs-tools currently doesn't mount /usr, so we should consider
> (temporarily) replacing the symlink with a copy until [1] is fixed or
> push harder to get the usr-mount support in initramfs-tools in.
>
systemd does not only _use_ a symlink for /etc/localtime, it REQUIRES a
symlink for /etc/localtime, as it get the timezone from the target of the
link
so unless we revert support for /etc/timezone back into systemd we have to
do usr-mount in initramfs-tools.

>
> Michael
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652459
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages systemd depends on:
> ii  initscripts          2.88dsf-43
> ii  libacl1              2.2.52-1
> ii  libaudit1            1:2.3.2-2
> ii  libblkid1            2.20.1-5.5
> ii  libc6                2.17-93
> ii  libcap2              1:2.22-1.2
> ii  libcryptsetup4       2:1.6.1-1
> ii  libdbus-1-3          1.6.16-1
> ii  libgcrypt11          1.5.3-2
> ii  libkmod2             15-0.1
> ii  liblzma5             5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
> ii  libpam0g             1.1.3-9
> ii  libselinux1          2.1.13-3
> ii  libsystemd-daemon0   204-1
> ii  libsystemd-journal0  204-1
> ii  libudev1             204-1
> ii  libwrap0             7.6.q-24
> ii  udev                 204-1
> ii  util-linux           2.20.1-5.5
>
> Versions of packages systemd recommends:
> ii  libpam-systemd  208-1
>
> Versions of packages systemd suggests:
> ii  systemd-ui  2-2
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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Shawn Landden
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