I faced same problem with latest xenial build in lxd. lxc init 7e745cf3a3a7 xenial lxc start xenial lxc exec xenial -- /bin/bash
root@xenial# echo 'Europe/Moscow' > /etc/timezone root@xenial# dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive tzdata root@xenial# cat /etc/timezone Etc/UTC And nothing will be happened. Timezone is not changed. I suppose that it is a tzdata package bug in 16.04. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to tzdata in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1556527 Title: tzdate upgrade fails wih invalid format error during Xenial upgrade Status in tzdata package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Everything looks fine; Not sure what is invalid about the format. I am EST, the output is in UTC. Breaks the upgrade after from 15.05 at a point where is says it completed with errors, but some 200+ packages remaining. Setting up tzdata (2016a-1) ... Current default time zone: 'America/Toronto' date: invalid date 'Sun Mar 13 02:32:57 UTC 2016' dpkg: error processing package tzdata (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: tzdata E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: tzdata 2016a-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-30.36-generic 4.2.8-ckt3 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-30-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Mar 12 21:35:07 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-22 (507 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA:en TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: tzdata UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-03-13 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/1556527/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
