I have updated to focal-proposed and checked that now there is no date: invalid date ' Wed Apr 1 17:23:44 2020'
output anymore in the console and that fixrtc finishes as expected. $ apt info initramfs-tools Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.136ubuntu6.2 ... $ cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-1003-bluefield root=LABEL=writable ro console=ttyAMA0 earlycon=pl011,0x01000000 fixrtc $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Release: 20.04 Codename: focal $ uname -a Linux ubuntu 5.4.0-1003-bluefield #4-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 12 17:02:31 UTC 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux ** Tags removed: verification-needed-focal ** Tags added: verification-done-focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to initramfs-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1880968 Title: fixrtc fails due to bad format of input to the date command Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in initramfs-tools source package in Focal: Fix Committed Bug description: The fixrtc script is failing with message: date: invalid date ' Wed Apr 1 17:23:44 2020' when calling the date command. It looks like it does not like the leading spaces for the input date. The date is taken from 'dumpe2fs -h' ouptput, and some clean-up on it happens, but it looks like it is not enough for BusyBox' date command, at least for the version in focal. Backporting this to focal is needed. [Impact] The system date shown on first boot is incorrect, which can be problematic on first boot if at that point in time there is no network connection. If fixrtc works correctly at least we get the date of the last time the rootfs was mounted, which is modern enough to avoid problems with snap assertions validation, etc. [Test case] Boot an image with fixrtc in the kernel command line in a system with no network. snap seeding will fail without the patch. [Regression Potential] Quite small, as the fix is small and targeted. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1880968/+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
