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Date:      Sun, 2 Nov 1997 14:07:30 -0500 (EST)
From:      Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 971026 wouldn't let me set timezone
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971102140438.19058B-100000@piano.synapse.net>
In-Reply-To: <19971102190138.XC09043@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> Regarding the broken timezone setup, i haven't been using 3.0-current
> SNAPs for a while.  This installation step is supposed to happen by
> running the external program /usr/sbin/tzsetup.  Maybe sysinstall
> fails to call it for some reason.  Maybe the program itself is broken?
> If you could reproduce it, have a look at the debug messages on the
> second screen (Alt-F2).

I ran tzsetup and tracked down the error; there's an extraneous blank
line at the end of /usr/share/misc/iso3166.  If line 465 is deleted, both
tzsetup and sysinstall work fine.

Evan




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