Open nwalters512 opened 11 months ago
Describe the bug
/etc/localtime is supposed to be a symlink: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/localtime.html. This is the most important part of those docs:
/etc/localtime
Because the timezone identifier is extracted from the symlink target name of /etc/localtime, this file may not be a normal file or hardlink.
However, on a newly-launched AL2023 instance, /etc/symlink is just a plain file.
/etc/symlink
To Reproduce
Launch an EC2 instance from the al2023-ami-2023.2.20231016.0-kernel-6.1-x86_64 AMI. Run ls -lah /etc/localtime and observe the following output:
al2023-ami-2023.2.20231016.0-kernel-6.1-x86_64
ls -lah /etc/localtime
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 114 Oct 16 22:05 /etc/localtime
Expected behavior
I would expect to see something like the following:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Dec 17 2021 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC
Additional context
Running sudo timedatectl set-timezone UTC will fix /etc/localtime to correctly be a symlink.
sudo timedatectl set-timezone UTC
Describe the bug
/etc/localtimeis supposed to be a symlink: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/localtime.html. This is the most important part of those docs:However, on a newly-launched AL2023 instance,
/etc/symlinkis just a plain file.To Reproduce
Launch an EC2 instance from the
al2023-ami-2023.2.20231016.0-kernel-6.1-x86_64AMI. Runls -lah /etc/localtimeand observe the following output:Expected behavior
I would expect to see something like the following:
Additional context
Running
sudo timedatectl set-timezone UTCwill fix/etc/localtimeto correctly be a symlink.