Bug 430910
| Summary: | timezone exception thrown before any welcome screens | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Rich Johnson <richard.johnson> | ||||
| Component: | system-config-date | Assignee: | Nils Philippsen <nphilipp> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 5.1 | CC: | dkovalsk, jscotka, riek, robert.evans, syeghiay | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-02-11 14:29:08 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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We have only seen this error on a system with dual quad cores (8 logical CPUs, x86_64, 4GB of memory). It might be a race condition that is not encountered with less CPUs. Created attachment 293559 [details]
proposed patch
Backported fix from the system-config-date Hg repository.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion, but this component is not scheduled to be updated in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release. If you would like this request to be reviewed for the next minor release, ask your support representative to set the next rhel-x.y flag to "?". Proposing for RHEL-5.3 and granting Devel ACK. Read ya, Phil Moving to FasTrack actually, fix is really simple and easy to reproduce. Read ya, Phil Is there any way how test it on machine with less cpus? seqeuence # install system # rm /etc/sysconfig/firstboot # reboot dont show any problem. Problems with reproducing bug. Only sanity tests An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0279.html |
Description of problem: After IPL, an firstboot reported: "An error has occured in the timezone module..." before presenting the any of the welcome screens. Kickstart configured the timezone with: timezone --utc America/New_York Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/firstboot/firstbootWindow.py", line 496, in loadModules result = module.launch() File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/timezone.py", line 74, in launch self.setupScreen() File "/usr/share/firstboot/modules/timezone.py", line 52, in setupScreen self.timezoneWindow = scdMainWindow.scdMainWindow (firstboot = True, showPages = ["timezone"]) File "/usr/share/system-config-date/scdMainWindow.py", line 254, in __init__ self.datePage = date_gui.datePage (self.dateBackend, self.xml) File "/usr/share/system-config-date/date_gui.py", line 57, in __init__ self.cal.select_month(times[1]-1, times[0]) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'select_month'