Re: where is tzconfig ?

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:48:01 +0000, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On 7/9/07, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>> 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:

[...]

>> > 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}'
>>
>
> $ dpkg -l libc6\* timezoneconf | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
> ii libc6 2.5-9+b1
> ii libc6-dbg 2.5-9+b1
> ii libc6-dev 2.5-9+b1
> un libc6-doc <none>
> ii libc6-i686 2.5-9+b1
> un libc6.1 <none>
> un libc6.1-dev <none>
> rc timezoneconf 0.10

Why are you using libc6 from Lenny on your Sarge system?

The post-Sarge versions of the libc6 package require an extra package,
"tzdata", to provide the files in /usr/share/zoneinfo. You should not
even be able to install such a libc6 package without also installing
tzdata. (Unless you use "dpkg --force-depends -i".)

How did you get your system into this state? (We need to know, otherwise
we cannot figure out the best way to fix it.)

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