Package: xen-tools
Version: 4.9.2-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
X-Debbugs-Cc: ke...@mit.edu
Dear Maintainer,
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* What led up to the situation?
Creating a new image.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
sudo xen-create-image --hostname=ubuntuxentest3 --memory=4096mb --lvm=v
--dist=jammy --pygrub --size=4G --noswap --dhcp
* What was the outcome of this action?
Before the action, on the host system (NOT the guest image created by
xen-create-image):
$ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Nov 23 09:04 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC
$ md5sum /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
38bb24ba4d742dd6f50c1cba29cd966a /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC
1ef5d280a7e0c1d820d05205b042cce0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
After the action:
$ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3552 Jan 7 20:37 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC
$ md5sum /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
1ef5d280a7e0c1d820d05205b042cce0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC
1ef5d280a7e0c1d820d05205b042cce0 /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York
$ debsums -s tzdata
debsums: changed file /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC (from tzdata package)
Ultimately, this causes time and date for the UTC time zone to be incorrect:
$ TZ=UTC date
* What outcome did you expect instead?
xen-create-image should not overwrite /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC with
a copy of the time zone file of the host.
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.8
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xen-tools depends on:
ii debootstrap 1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1
ii libconfig-inifiles-perl 3.000003-2
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdata-validate-ip-perl 0.31-1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-2
ii libfile-slurp-perl 9999.32-2
ii libfile-which-perl 1.27-2
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3
ii libterm-ui-perl 0.50-1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.61-1
ii mount 2.38.1-5+deb12u2
ii openssh-client 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u3
ii perl 5.36.0-7+deb12u1
Versions of packages xen-tools recommends:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2023.3+deb12u1
ii debootstrap 1.0.128+nmu2+deb12u1
ii e2fsprogs 1.47.0-2
ii libexpect-perl 1.35-2
ii lvm2 2.03.16-2
pn rinse <none>
pn ubuntu-keyring | ubuntu-archive-keyring <none>
ii xen-hypervisor-4.17-amd64 [xen-hypervisor] 4.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1
ii xen-utils-4.17 [xen-utils] 4.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1
Versions of packages xen-tools suggests:
ii btrfs-progs 6.2-1+deb12u1
pn cfengine2 <none>
pn grub-xen-host <none>
pn reiserfsprogs <none>
pn xfsprogs <none>
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