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 -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>. ** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13037749/unnamed -- /etc/timezone does not exist https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209429 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs