Description of problem: The timezone specified in the timezone line in a kickstart file selects the right timezone, but if --utc is there, it makes no difference to the timezone selection screen, at least in an interactive install: the UTC check box is not checked. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-10.92.4-1 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a kickstart file with timezone --utc America/Sao_Paulo, for an interactive kickstart install 2.Start the installer using that file Actual results: When you get to the timezone screen, the UTC check box is not checked, and the installed system does not assume the BIOS clock is in UTC Expected results: The box should be checked, and the directive should take effect Additional info: It might be that a non-interactive install works, but I sort of doubt it. It's more likely another fallout from the ks parser rewrite.
FWIW, I've verified that a non-interactive install works. It only drops --utc in interactive ks installs.
Close, but this is actually fallout from reworking the timezone screen. Too late for test 3, but this will be fixed in Rawhide.
This is back in the current tree :-( In the interactive install, the local time is in UTC button is not checked even though I have the --utc option in the ks file. Unfortunately I can't test non-interactive installs atm due to other installer bugs :-(
Hmm... Odd... On another box, it worked. Differences: the one on which it didn't work is x86_64, whereas the other is i386; the working one didn't boot with `expert', but the faulty one did because it has a USB disk on raid 1 for the root-containing volume group physical volumes. I hope this helps. I've double-checked the timezone line, and they are bit-by-bit identical on both boxes.
Anything in the log files for the machine that doesn't work?
Nope, but it hit me when I proceeded to install it on another notebook that also had a MS-Windows left-over :-) ./iw/timezone_gui.py: self.utcCheckbox.set_active(not hasWindows(anaconda.id.bootloader)) Surely this shouldn't override the ks setting. I don't care if Windows gets the time wrong (I never use it anyway :-)
Ah yes, that would do it. Thanks for figuring that out. Let me know if the next anaconda build works better for you.