[systemd-devel] Problem with systemd-timedated

[Maciej Piechotka]

On Sat, 2012-10-27 at 13:53 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Maciej Piechotka
> <uzytkownik2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > After some update of systemd the systemd-timedated stopped starting
> > automatically which causes troubles for timezone settings. I cannot find
> > anything in logs. When I run it by hand everything works.
> 
> What kind of trouble?
> 

TZ is not set. I can manually issue:

# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime

or

# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime

> > Any ideas what might caused it? I'm currently using systemd 198 (and 199
> > is just being installed).
> 
> Hmm, you are message from the future? :) We are only at 195 now.
> 

Apparently. I meant 194/195 respectivly.

> > # systemctl status systemd-timedated.service
> > systemd-timedated.service - Time & Date Service
> >           Loaded: loaded
> > (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/systemd-timedated.service; static)
> >           Active: inactive (dead)
> >             Docs: man:systemd-timedated.service(8)
> >                   man:localtime(5)
> >
> > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated
> >           CGroup: name=systemd:/system/systemd-timedated.service
> >
> > # systemctl enable systemd-timedated.service
> > The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be
> > enabled using systemctl.
> 
> That's all fine, it's bus-activated. It will not run unless something
> calls into it. It was always like that.
> 
> Does this work for you?
> 
> $ gdbus introspect --system --dest org.freedesktop.timedate1
> --object-path /org/freedesktop/timedate1 --only-properties
> node /org/freedesktop/timedate1 {
>   interface org.freedesktop.timedate1 {
>     properties:
>       readonly s Timezone = 'Europe/Berlin';
>       readonly b LocalRTC = false;
>       readonly b NTP = true;
>   };
> };
> 

I'll check. But it cause troubles (see the first comment).

> Kay

Maciej