Bug 39296 – uname -v

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Christian Hartmann (RETIRED) 2004-01-24 17:03:04 UTC]

Take a look yourself.

uname -v says "Local time zone must be set--see zic manual".

Yup. We should set the timezone before compiling the kernel for the livecd.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get some crisps.
2. Start VMware and boot from livecd.
3. Enter "uname -v"

[Comment 1 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-01-25 04:39:02 UTC]

Reassigning to release, since I am sure this is valid for all archs

[Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-01-25 08:44:32 UTC]

Have you tried a different flavour of crisps?

[Comment 3 Christian Hartmann (RETIRED) 2004-01-25 09:11:11 UTC]

I tried 'Asian Curry' and 'Mexican Style' but the problem still remains.

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-01-26 14:25:42 UTC]

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=7

Check the handbook - step 7a "set the system clock" comes before step 7b "Installing the [kernel] sources"

[Comment 5 Christian Hartmann (RETIRED) 2004-01-27 10:23:12 UTC]

John, please take a look at what product we are talking about. It's about the new LiveCD kernels.
Please read before closing bugs. Thanks.

[Comment 6 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-01-27 10:46:05 UTC]

My bad, sorry. Thanks for catching my error.

[Comment 7 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-02-03 07:18:49 UTC]

Solved. The following operations in catalyst's achscript (inside the chroot) have to be done before _merging_ the kernel:

rm /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime