On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 23:02 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> Robert, we do need to know at least whether this was an upgrade, and if
> so from which release, so that we can at least have some basic idea of
> where to start investigating.

I installed this machine somewhat haphazardly, it was having boot
problems from the amd64 cd's. I am *fairly* sure it was feisty liveCD
that I finally got it up and running from. I'm running a crypted
environment, which ubiquity doesn't natively support, so I partitioned
manually and installed onto that. I think.

> At least in Dennis' case, we're pretty confident that the installer did
> create /etc/timezone, but something seems to have removed it later. This
> could e.g. be a broken maintainer script on upgrade, or it could be a
> desktop configuration utility, or something else. We need your help to
> limit the scope of this somewhat.

Sure. Are there any log files that might record this information?

-Rob

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