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From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: 971026 wouldn't let me set timezone
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On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, J Wunsch wrote:

> Regarding the broken timezone setup, i haven't been using 3.0-current
> SNAPs for a while.  This installation step is supposed to happen by
> running the external program /usr/sbin/tzsetup.  Maybe sysinstall
> fails to call it for some reason.  Maybe the program itself is broken?
> If you could reproduce it, have a look at the debug messages on the
> second screen (Alt-F2).

I ran tzsetup and tracked down the error; there's an extraneous blank
line at the end of /usr/share/misc/iso3166.  If line 465 is deleted, both
tzsetup and sysinstall work fine.

Evan