Can't set timezone from KDE widget

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

F18, KDE 4.9.5

When I try to set my timezone using the KDE settings widget, I get an
error popup:

        Error setting new time zone.

Note that the widget doesn't ask for any authentication.

Any thoughts?

poc

[Rex Dieter]

On 01/30/2013 07:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  F18, KDE 4.9.5
>
>  When I try to set my timezone using the KDE settings widget, I get an
>  error popup:
>
>           Error setting new time zone.
>
>  Note that the widget doesn't ask for any authentication.
>
>  Any thoughts? 
Likely selinux getting in the way, see also,

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904801

-- rex

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 10:09 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  On 01/30/2013 07:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  > F18, KDE 4.9.5
>  >
>  > When I try to set my timezone using the KDE settings widget, I get an
>  > error popup:
>  >
>  >          Error setting new time zone.
>  >
>  > Note that the widget doesn't ask for any authentication.
>  >
>  > Any thoughts?
>  
>  Likely selinux getting in the way, see also,
>  
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904801 
Perhaps, but the suggested fix (update to selinux-policy) had no effect.

poc

[Peter G.]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

>  Any thoughts? 
If it's what I encountered, then, yes :-) The KDE systemsettings 
set time thingy does not work. You have to set the time using (as 
root):

timedatectl set-timezone "America/Edmonton"

Chose your time zone. This will create a link in /etc/localtime.

If you try to set it in KDE, this link will be deleted and you do 
not want that.

You probably also want to use NTP, so:

timedatectl set-ntp 1

It helps to read the release notes ;-)

[Kevin Kofler]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  F18, KDE 4.9.5
>  
>  When I try to set my timezone using the KDE settings widget, I get an
>  error popup:
>  
>          Error setting new time zone.
>  
>  Note that the widget doesn't ask for any authentication.
>  
>  Any thoughts? 
Thanks for the reports and feedback in Bugzilla!

For everyone else reading this, you'll want these fixes:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-1693
for
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902959
and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904801

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-1183
(the latest edit that's not pushed yet)
for
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906854

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-runtime-4.9.5-2.fc18
(pending push to testing)
for
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906972

        Kevin Kofler