On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:22:27 +0000, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having some weird issue with my oldstable debian machine. It
> seems I do not have any timezone software coming from libc6. For
> instanceI get:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install -t sarge-backports libc6 timezoneconf
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> libc6 is already the newest version.
> timezoneconf is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up timezoneconf (0.10) ...
> Couldn't chdir to /usr/share/zoneinfo: No such file or directory at
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/timezoneconf.config line 23, <STDIN> line 2.
> dpkg: error processing timezoneconf (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> timezoneconf
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
> and indeed /usr/share/zoneinfo does not exist.
What output do you get when you run this:
dpkg -l libc6\* timezoneconf | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'