Debian Bug report logs - #455783
Script tzdata.postinst fails: /usr/bin/tzconfig not found

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Arnold Metselaar <arnold.metselaar@planet.nl>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Script tzdata.postinst fails: /usr/bin/tzconfig not found

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:56:28 +0100

Package: tzdata
Version: 2007j-1etch1
Severity: important

When I try to upgrade the tzdata pakage I get the following messages.
Setting up tzdata (2007j-1etch1) ...
Running 'tzconfig' to set this system's timezone.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.postinst: line 27: /usr/sbin/tzconfig: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 tzdata

The tzconfig program is in the package libc6 for etch, but no package currently
lenny or sid has it. 
It may be possible to upgrade with a non-interactive front-end and change the 
time zone by hand afterwards, but a postinst script may not assume the prezence 
of a program that is not provided by a dependency or an essential package.

Maybe this bug should be reassigned to the package that should contain tzconfig.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (950, 'testing'), (500, 'stable-backports'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686
Locale: LANG=nl_NL, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

-- debconf information:
  tzdata/Zones/Asia:
  tzdata/Zones/SystemV:
  tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
  tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
  tzdata/Zones/Etc:
  tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
  tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
  tzdata/Zones/America:
* tzdata/Areas: Europe
  tzdata/Zones/Australia:
  tzdata/Zones/Canada:
* tzdata/Zones/Europe: Amsterdam
  tzdata/Zones/Africa:
  tzdata/Zones/Indian:

Message #10 received at 455783@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

To: Arnold Metselaar <arnold.metselaar@planet.nl>, 455783@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#455783: Script tzdata.postinst fails: /usr/bin/tzconfig not found

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:50:00 +0100

severity 455783 normal
thanks

Arnold Metselaar a écrit :
> Package: tzdata
> Version: 2007j-1etch1
> Severity: important
> 
> When I try to upgrade the tzdata pakage I get the following messages.
> Setting up tzdata (2007j-1etch1) ...
> Running 'tzconfig' to set this system's timezone.
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.postinst: line 27: /usr/sbin/tzconfig: No such file or directory
> dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  tzdata
> 
> The tzconfig program is in the package libc6 for etch, but no package currently
> lenny or sid has it. 
> It may be possible to upgrade with a non-interactive front-end and change the 
> time zone by hand afterwards, but a postinst script may not assume the prezence 
> of a program that is not provided by a dependency or an essential package.
> 

If you use libc6 from unstable, you should also uses tzdata from unstable.

libc6 conflicts on the orginally version in etch, but unfortunately this
doesn't work anymore now that the version has been upgraded.

We are working on a solution so that an upgrade of libc6 also imply an
upgrade of tzdata.

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Message #19 received at 455783@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Antoine Sirinelli <antoine-debian@monte-stello.com>

To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

Cc: Arnold Metselaar <arnold.metselaar@planet.nl>, 455783@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#455783: Script tzdata.postinst fails: /usr/bin/tzconfig not found

Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:53:16 +0100

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:50:00PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Arnold Metselaar a écrit :
> > When I try to upgrade the tzdata pakage I get the following messages.
> > Setting up tzdata (2007j-1etch1) ...
> > Running 'tzconfig' to set this system's timezone.
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/tzdata.postinst: line 27: /usr/sbin/tzconfig: No such file or directory
> > dpkg: error processing tzdata (--configure):
> >  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  tzdata
> > 
> > The tzconfig program is in the package libc6 for etch, but no package currently
> > lenny or sid has it. 
> > It may be possible to upgrade with a non-interactive front-end and change the 
> > time zone by hand afterwards, but a postinst script may not assume the prezence 
> > of a program that is not provided by a dependency or an essential package.
> > 
> 
> If you use libc6 from unstable, you should also uses tzdata from unstable.
> 
> libc6 conflicts on the orginally version in etch, but unfortunately this
> doesn't work anymore now that the version has been upgraded.

I can confirm this bug on a testing(lenny) system. The problem come from
the tzdata packet 2007j-1etch1 which is present in the volatile
repository. The volatile repository is for stable(etch) systems but I do
not know if this bug occurs on stable systems.

Antoine

Message #24 received at 455783@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Arnold Metselaar <arnold.metselaar@planet.nl>

To: Antoine Sirinelli <antoine-debian@monte-stello.com>

Cc: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>, 455783@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#455783: Version number in volatile is higher than in sid (was:Script tzdata.postinst fails: /usr/bin/tzconfig not found)

Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 13:18:59 +0100

package tzdata
retitle 455783 Version number in volatile is higher than in sid
thanks

Op vrijdag 14 december 2007 09:53, schreef Antoine Sirinelli:
> I can confirm this bug on a testing(lenny) system. The problem
> come from the tzdata packet 2007j-1etch1 which is present in the
> volatile repository. The volatile repository is for stable(etch)
> systems but I do not know if this bug occurs on stable systems.
>
> Antoine

The libc6 still has /usr/sbin/tzconfig, so I don't think there is 
any problem for stable+volatile. 

The root cause of the problem is that a package in volatile has been 
given a version number that was higher than the version in sid and 
testing, violating one of the acceptance rules of debian volatile:
    * The upgrade path from volatile to the next stable release 
needs to be at least as easy as for the stable release; version 
numbers in volatile must not be higher than those in testing, for 
instance. [1]

I see the problem has been solved by bumping the version number of 
tzdata in sid and lenny, So I think this bug can be closed now.

Kind regards,
Arnold Metselaar

[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-volatile/

Message #29 received at 455783-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>

To: 455783-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#455783: fixed in glibc 2.7-5

Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:32:08 +0000

Source: glibc
Source-Version: 2.7-5

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
glibc, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

glibc-doc_2.7-5_all.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/glibc-doc_2.7-5_all.deb
glibc_2.7-5.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.7-5.diff.gz
glibc_2.7-5.dsc
  to pool/main/g/glibc/glibc_2.7-5.dsc
libc6-dbg_2.7-5_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dbg_2.7-5_amd64.deb
libc6-dev-i386_2.7-5_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev-i386_2.7-5_amd64.deb
libc6-dev_2.7-5_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.7-5_amd64.deb
libc6-i386_2.7-5_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-i386_2.7-5_amd64.deb
libc6-pic_2.7-5_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-pic_2.7-5_amd64.deb
libc6-prof_2.7-5_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-prof_2.7-5_amd64.deb
libc6-udeb_2.7-5_amd64.udeb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-udeb_2.7-5_amd64.udeb
libc6_2.7-5_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.7-5_amd64.deb
libnss-dns-udeb_2.7-5_amd64.udeb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libnss-dns-udeb_2.7-5_amd64.udeb
libnss-files-udeb_2.7-5_amd64.udeb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/libnss-files-udeb_2.7-5_amd64.udeb
locales-all_2.7-5_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/locales-all_2.7-5_amd64.deb
locales_2.7-5_all.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/locales_2.7-5_all.deb
nscd_2.7-5_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.7-5_amd64.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 455783@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> (supplier of updated glibc package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:22:06 +0100
Source: glibc
Binary: libc0.1-prof libc6.1-alphaev67 libc6-dev-amd64 locales-all libc6-i686 libc6-dev-ppc64 libc0.3-pic glibc-doc libc0.3 libc6-dev-mipsn32 libc0.1-i686 libc0.1-i386 libc6-mips64 libc6.1-dev libc6-s390x libnss-files-udeb libc0.1-dev-i386 libc6-dev-sparc64 libc6-i386 libc0.3-dev libc6-udeb libc6-dbg libc6.1-pic libc6-dev libc0.3-prof libc0.1-udeb libc6-dev-i386 libc6.1-prof libc6-mipsn32 libc0.1-dev locales libc6-pic libc0.3-udeb libc6-dev-powerpc libc0.1-pic libc6-ppc64 libc0.3-dbg libc0.1-dbg libc6-amd64 libc0.1 libc6-prof libc6-xen libc6-dev-mips64 libc6-powerpc libc6 libc6-sparcv9b libc6.1-udeb libc6.1-dbg nscd libc6-sparc64 libnss-dns-udeb libc6.1 libc6-dev-s390x
Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 2.7-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Changed-By: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Description: 
 glibc-doc  - GNU C Library: Documentation
 libc6      - GNU C Library: Shared libraries
 libc6-dbg  - GNU C Library: Libraries with debugging symbols
 libc6-dev  - GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
 libc6-dev-i386 - GNU C Library: 32bit development libraries for AMD64
 libc6-i386 - GNU C Library: 32bit shared libraries for AMD64
 libc6-pic  - GNU C Library: PIC archive library
 libc6-prof - GNU C Library: Profiling Libraries
 libc6-udeb - GNU C Library: Shared libraries - udeb (udeb)
 libnss-dns-udeb - GNU C Library: NSS helper for DNS - udeb (udeb)
 libnss-files-udeb - GNU C Library: NSS helper for files - udeb (udeb)
 locales    - GNU C Library: National Language (locale) data [support]
 locales-all - GNU C Library: Precompiled locale data
 nscd       - GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon
Closes: 453408 453899 455603 455783 456260 456779
Changes: 
 glibc (2.7-5) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Aurelien Jarno ]
   * Moved merged parts of patches/any/submitted-sched_h.diff into
     patches/any/cvs-sched_h.diff.
   * patches/any/cvs-ether_line.diff: new patch from upstream to fix
     ether_line().  Closes: bug#453899.
   * patches/any/cvs-vfscanf.diff: new patch from upstream to fix
     crash when %as is used with sscanf().  Closes: bug#453408.
   * debian/rules: also set CXX when cross-compiling.
   * patches/any/submitted-malloc_h.diff: removed, replaced by
     patches/any/cvs-wchar_h.diff.
   * debian/sysdeps/depflags.pl: conflict against tzdata (<< 2007j-2) as
     etch now have version 2007j-1etch1.  Closes: bug#455783.
   * debian/sysdeps/depflags.pl: suggests libc6-i686 on i386 architecture.
     Closes: bug#455603.
   * any/submitted-rfc3484-labels.diff: new patch to fix RFC 3484 default
     label ordering.  Closes: bug#456779.
   * patches/alpha/local-dl-procinfo.diff: add missing part.  Closes:
     bug#456260.
 .
   [ Petr Salinger]
   * kfreebsd/local-sysdeps.diff: update to revision 2082 (from glibc-bsd).
   * any/cvs-fchmodat.diff: properly declare as stub - needed by GNU/kFreeBSD.
 .
   [ Samuel Thibault]
   * patches/hurd-i386/submitted-ioctl-unsigned-size_t.diff: update to also
     handle unsigned char/int/short/long and ssize_t.
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Message #34 received at 455783@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Rick Humphries <rickh@rickh.demon.co.uk>

To: 455783@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Problem setting up tzdata

Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 17:38:26 +0000

On running the 'update' facility it offered several updates but the 
installation failed part way through with the error message shown in the 
455783 bug report.  The installation of the remaining packages was 
blocked due to the error in installing tzdata.

Having tried to find a way of correcting the situation I found that 
running the:
System
    Administration
         Time and Date

facility allowed me to set my correct timezone.

Following that, all the other update packages installed OK.

-- 
Rick Humphries

Tel:     01638 730402
Mobile:  07802 433219

E-mail   rickh@rickh.demon.co.uk

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