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[Error] distrobox create fails on fresh CoreOS installation due to missing /etc/localtime #664

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bsherman opened this issue Mar 19, 2023 · 1 comment
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[Error] distrobox create fails on fresh CoreOS installation due to missing /etc/localtime #664

bsherman opened this issue Mar 19, 2023 · 1 comment
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bsherman commented Mar 19, 2023 •
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distrobox create fails on fresh CoreOS installation due to missing /etc/localtime

To Reproduce

  1. Install Fedora CoreOS
  2. rpm-ostree install distrobox, and reboot
  3. distrobox create
  4. observe failure
[core@ucore-test1 ~]$ distrobox create
Creating 'my-distrobox' using image registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:36	Error: statfs /etc/localtime: no such file or directory
 [ ERR ]

This fails because CoreOS defaults to UTC time with no /etc/localtime symlink present. If timezone is set with timedatectl the symlink is created as would normally be expected.

Expected behavior
distrobox should create successfully, even when etc/localtime is missing.

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distrobox create verbose.log

Run the commands with --verbose and post the log here as a file upload
Attach also the output of podman logs or docker logs, possibly with --latest flag

Desktop (please complete the following information):

  • podman
  • 4.4.1
  • 1.4.2.1

Additional context
This bug report prompted by discussion on this workaround commit
@bsherman bsherman added the bug Something isn't working label Mar 19, 2023
bsherman referenced this issue in ublue-os/ucore Mar 19, 2023
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fix: symlink localtime to UTC by default
2d2611a 
distrobox fails to create its containers if /etc/localtime does not
exist, which it does not, by default, on a default CoreOS system.
This doesn't a net change to default timezone, but allows distrobox
to work.
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@bsherman pushed a fix for this :)

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