Description of problem:

In /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out the following massages are logged:

2010-03-16 17:03:59,965 [TP-Processor2] WARN  com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.LocalizedEnvironmentFilter - timezone still null

In only five days, this message is logged 24001 times, which makes the log increase in size very fast:

# grep "timezone still null" /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out | wc -l 
24001

This is probably caused by not finding a specific timezone in db:

spacewalk-java-0.5.44/code/src/com/redhat/rhn/domain/user/UserFactory.java:
=== snip ===
public static RhnTimeZone getTimeZone(String olsonName) {
        Session session = null;
        try {
            session = HibernateFactory.getSession();
            return (RhnTimeZone) session                                   .getNamedQuery("RhnTimeZone.loadTimeZoneByOlsonName")
                                     .setString("ton", olsonName)
                                     //Retrieve from cache if there
                                     .setCacheable(true)
                                     .uniqueResult();
=== snip ===

the codepath to the above code is:

spacewalk-java-0.5.44/code/src/com/redhat/rhn/frontend/servlets/LocalizedEnvironmentFilter.java:setTimeZone() -> UserManager.getTimeZone()


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

spacewalk-java-0.5.44-69.el5sat


How reproducible:

not for all, but specific timezones set in /etc/sysconfig/clock e.g. "Europe/Prague"


Steps to Reproduce:

1. set the specific e.g. "Europe/Prague" in /etc/sysconfig/clock
2. try to login through webui, this will produce the messages

  
Actual results:

a lot of the same messages in /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out:

2010-03-16 17:03:59,965 [TP-Processor2] WARN  com.redhat.rhn.frontend.servlets.LocalizedEnvironmentFilter - timezone still null

Expected results:

it shouldn't print the messages so often


Additional info:

This has been already fixed, but not yet in the current/stable spacewalk:

https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/changeset/e741830fc233b790690f5ded01bf47fb10192305#file0