[Dapper] Timezone config busted after libc update

[Frank McCormick]

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On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 14:42:29 +0000
Darryl Clarke <smartssa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I updated libc6 today and now my timezone configuration is broken.
> 
> Synaptic's terminal popped up and stated this:
> Your current time zone is set to America/New_York
> Do you want to change that? [n]:
> 
> I answered 'N', but it proceeded to force me. (difference between N and n?)
> 
> After pressing '2' for America, I was presented with no listing of
> cities (which I should've gotten) so I had to kill the update to get
> out of it.
> 
> I ran it manually from apt-get update; and it asked the same this time
> at least it acknowledged my 'n'.
> 
> Setting up libc6 (2.3.6-0ubuntu6) ...
> Running 'tzconfig' to set this system's timezone.
> Your current time zone is set to America/New_York
> Do you want to change that? [n]:
> Your time zone will not be changed


   Strange because the libc6 update here didn't break timezone, but it did break halt/and reboot. Neither works from the
panel icons, but I can log out and shutdown/reboot from gdm. There's a movie called Strange Days.



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Cheers

Frank

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