[25705] in Athena Bugs
Re: gnome-panel clock not fully functional
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jun 17 16:30:05 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: "Adam D'Amico" <adamico@mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:27:22 -0400
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On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 11:23, Adam D'Amico wrote:
> Looking at versions, it appears that all the machines that exhibit
> this behavior went from 9.2 straight to 9.3.6, while machines that
> don't took some earlier version of 9.3. This is true for Kevin's
> tests as well.
Ah, excellent research, thanks.
The problem lies with the file /usr/athena/lib/charset.aliases. Four
MIT-* packages claim ownership of this file, and one of them
(MIT-gnome-vfs) writes a very truncated version of it. If a machine
upgraded to 9.3.4 or later directly, it gets the MIT-gnome-vfs version;
if a machine upgraded to 9.3.3 and then to a later version, it gets the
MIT-libiconv version.
If you have the truncated file, you don't have a mapping from "646" (the
default charset on Solaris) to "ASCII", which leads to an inability to
translate from the default charset to UTF-8, which leads to the clock
lossage.
In the next patch release, we will add a hack to the build script such
that only MIT-libiconv owns the file, which should settle the issue.
