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Moonfire NVR, a security camera network video recorder
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Unable to resolve /etc/localtime symlink while starting server #225

Closed katyo closed 2 years ago

katyo commented 2 years ago

When I trying to start server on NixOS it fails with the following error:

E20220510 00:34:16.546 main moonfire_nvr] Exiting due to error: Unable to resolve /etc/localtime symlink destination /etc/zoneinfo/Asia/Yekaterinburg to a timezone.

On a NixOS localtime symlink resolves to something like:

$ realpath /etc/localtime
/nix/store/<SOME_HASH>-tzdata-<VERSION>/share/zoneinfo/<REGION>/<LOCATION>

But as I see current solution simply strips some well-known prefixes: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/841e06e35458db1e40e16c72730cd2959cfdc5e6/server/src/cmds/run/mod.rs#L47-L48

scottlamb commented 2 years ago

Thanks for the report. Maybe we should be looking mid-string for /zoneinfo/ then rather than by prefix.

You can work around by setting the TZ environment variable to :Asia/Yekaterinburg. On most shells, export TZ=:Asia/Yekaterinburg will do.

katyo commented 2 years ago

@scottlamb I created PR which implements that idea.