30129 – Date::Manip 5.42a-r1 unable to determine timezone when called

Bug 30129 - Date::Manip 5.42a-r1 unable to determine timezone when called

Summary: Date::Manip 5.42a-r1 unable to determine timezone when called

Status:	VERIFIED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Perl team

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Reported:	2003-10-01 19:15 UTC by Ian Truelsen
Modified:	2003-10-02 09:25 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Ian Truelsen 2003-10-01 19:15:18 UTC

When Date::Manip is called from xmltv 0.5.19 it fails with the following error:

dark-lord root # tv_grab_na --configure
ERROR: Date::Manip unable to determine TimeZone.
        Date::Manip::Date_TimeZone called at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 661
        Date::Manip::Date_Init() called at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Date/Manip.pm line 779
        Date::Manip::ParseDateString('now') called at /usr/bin/tv_grab_na line 518


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. tv_grab_na --configure
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
see above error


Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-grsec-1.9.12)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.22-grsec-1.9.12 i686 Celeron (Mendocino)
distcc 2.9 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled]
ccache version 2.2 [enabled]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /var/bind /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox autoaddcvs ccache distcc fixpackages"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi encode foomaticdb gpm imlib libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg
ncurses nls pdflib quicktime slang spell truetype xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb
readline svga sdl tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python oggvorbis gtk qt motif mysql
-gnome -X -kde -opengl xml xml2 -arts acpi apache2 cdr crypt cups gif imap java
jpeg maildir png tiff"

Comment 1 Ian Truelsen 2003-10-02 09:24:08 UTC

Found the cause: something blew up my localtime link in /etc.

Comment 2 Ian Truelsen 2003-10-02 09:25:06 UTC

Should not have sent this as a bug.