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regarding tzdata update stomps preseeded timezone (breaks Oracle connections)
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Package: tzdata
Version: 2010o-0lenny1
Severity: important
Our 2000+ servers are preseeded to UTC during auto-installs via
d-i time/zone string UTC
But when the tzdata package is updated, and our development servers
auto-update, tzdata's config script stomps on the d-i preseeded value
of "UTC", tragically changing it to "Etc/UTC" in /etc/timezone :
This has the unfortunate side effect of killing all subsequent connections
to our databases due to an Java vs. Oracle bug (irony alert) :
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=958265
Java's Timezone.getDefaultTimezone() returns 'Etc/UTC', and
this is apparently not a valid timezone in Oracle. ...
But I still think this is abug in Oracle's Timezone data, as
'Etc/UTC' is indeed a valid timezone ID.
On our killed clients, and in the ( http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/ )
squirrel-sql UI, this manifests as
configdb: ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01882: timezone region not found
Had this happened in our production environment, it would have killed the site,
which I'm told is a Very Bad Thing (TM) in some circles. As it was, it caused
lots of testing to abort, and made for a bad day for me.
I'd posit that the tzdata config script should respect d-i preseeded (or
manually set) choices of timezone, as long as the timezone is valid/exists.
Secondarily, it should be able to represent all available timezone choices
(eg; UTC vs Etc/UTC).
If I get a chance this weekend I'll take a stab at a patch, but I at
least need to get the issue on the radar now.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages tzdata depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
tzdata recommends no packages.
tzdata suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
tzdata/Zones/Australia:
tzdata/Zones/Asia:
tzdata/Zones/SystemV:
tzdata/Zones/Pacific:
tzdata/Zones/Atlantic:
* tzdata/Zones/Etc: GMT
tzdata/Zones/Arctic:
tzdata/Zones/Antarctica:
tzdata/Zones/Europe:
tzdata/Zones/Africa:
* tzdata/Zones/America: Denver
* tzdata/Areas: America
tzdata/Zones/Indian:
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: tzdata
Source-Version: 2025c-2
Done: Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tzdata, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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pp.
Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> (supplier of updated tzdata package)
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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:51:19 +0100
Source: tzdata
Architecture: source
Version: 2025c-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]>
Closes: 605834 813226 822733
Changes:
tzdata (2025c-2) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Remove /etc/timezone on upgrade (Closes: #605834, #813226, #822733)
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