[Bug 812745] New: systemd-nspawn, still errors because /etc/localtime is not a symlink

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812745 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812745#c0 Summary: systemd-nspawn, still errors because /etc/localtime is not a symlink Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: tonysu@su-networking.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 The error displays as follows (path modified) # systemd-nspawn -D /../Fedora18/ Spawning namespace container on /../Fedora18 (console is /dev/pts/7). /etc/localtime is not a symlink, not updating container timezone. execv() failed: Permission denied Container failed with error code 1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup Fedora 18 file system 2. systemd-nspawn =D http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-August/006258.html I found this message which suggests that Lennart Poettering recommended a patch that tests for whether a symlink is implemented or not and was likely submitted but I do not know if it was implemented. If it was implemented, it's not working http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=d40361453be0525a0455d... I don't know how many and which operating systems implement localtime symlinks although of course it's likely that all the RH derivitives likely do so... So this is a fairly significant error. Although the workaround likely is to just create the symlink, am researching exactly what the symlink should be linked to(maybe inspect exactly what is happening on a running Fedora). Alternative workaround likely is to use traditional chroot instead of systemd-nspawn although am working through some unrelated problems there, too. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.