Whenever I use Gnome tool for setting time, it chnages permission to /etc/localtime so that only root can see it: ls -l /etc/localtime -rw------- 1 root root 1267 Feb 25 00:19 /etc/localtime After this user sees time in UTC zone. Doing "chmod o+r /etc/localtime" fixes the problem. I am seeing this in XFCE4, I have not tested it in GNOME. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Check current time and timezone as a user 2.Run Date and Time tool 3.Again check current time and timezone as a user Actual Results: Timezone is set to UTC, and time is shifted by a differece between correct time zone and UTC (5 hours in case of EST). This is because the permissions on /etc/timezone are too restrictive, only root can read the file. Expected Results: Timezone should not be changed. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-ck5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-ck5 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 9 2005, 23:57:41)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://128.213.5.34/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X aalib alsa apm artworkextra avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl directfb divx4linux edl emboss encode f77 fam fbcon fbdev fftw flac font-server foomaticdb fortran fpx gd gdbm gif gnome gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal imagemagick imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg libcaca libg++ libwww live lzo lzw-tiff mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mozsvg mpeg msn nas ncurses network nls nptl nvidia oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl plotutils png python quicktime readline real rtc sdl slang spell sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l v4l2 wmf xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
I can't reproduce this, my permissions are fine on /etc/localtime even after using the time-admin tool. joem@triforce ~ % ls -l /etc/localtime -rw----r-- 1 root root 1.3K Mar 1 16:41 /etc/localtime
This problem is related to user's umask setting, I have umask 077 in my .bashrc and after disabling it (and having default 0022) it went away. The same bug was also filed in RedHat's bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129876 Apparently, RedHat fixed it in December.
Closing per above.
Reopening, since it still does not work in Gentoo. RedHat may have fixed it (at least according to their bugzilla), but it still does not work. Thus, this bug is not resolved yet.
@reporter: can you still reproduce this with 2.12?
(In reply to comment #5) > @reporter: can you still reproduce this with 2.12? > Yes, running current stable gnome (2.12.3), the error is still there.
It seems that this issue is absolutely not handled by system-tools-backends code (which is used by gnome-system-tools). I suggest to look for upstream bug (on gnome bugzilla) and drop the link here.
(In reply to comment #7) > It seems that this issue is absolutely not handled by system-tools-backends > code (which is used by gnome-system-tools). I suggest to look for upstream bug > (on gnome bugzilla) and drop the link here. > I looked at gnome bugzilla, but could not find anything relevant. The only bug report (and fix) I was able to find is the entry in RedHat bugzilla already mentioned above: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=129876
Created attachment 101480 [details, diff] system-tools-backends-1.4.2-umask_for_localtime.patch I couldn't reproduce this behaviour when running time-admin as a normal user and then entering the root password. I only see it when I set the umask and then run time-admin as root. Anyway, looking at the source code, it's easy to see what's going on: the backend first deletes the current localtime file and then it does a simple copy operation without verifying the permissions on the file afterwards. The attached patch reflects one way to fix this. You can apply it manually to /usr/share/setup-tool-backends/scripts/time-conf or apply it inside system-tools-backends's ebuild. Please test it and let us know if this resolves what you describe. Thanks.
How can I try out this patch, I mean how do I modify the system-tools-backends (I hope this is the right one) ebuild to inlcude the patch when I reemerge it?
this version has been long masked but if any newer version still produce this bug, please visit bug #214265.
