14370 2021-05-01 11:11:30 +0000 Toaster fails to start in CentOS 8 because it can't detect the timezone 2025-03-13 04:49:25 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime Toaster toaster 3.2.3 x86 Multiple RESOLVED WONTFIX Medium normal 5.2 M3 1 spynet314 david.reyna randy.macleod toaster --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 90205 0 spynet314 2021-05-01 11:11:30 +0000 Hello, in my CentOS 8 setup, the script 'bitbake/lib/toaster/toastermain/settings.py' generates the following exception on start: File "/home/paolo/poky/bitbake/lib/toaster/toastermain/settings.py", line 86, in <module> if pytz.timezone(zonename) is not None: File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytz/__init__.py", line 168, in timezone _tzinfo_cache[zone] = build_tzinfo(zone, fp) File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pytz/tzfile.py", line 33, in build_tzinfo assert magic == _byte_string('TZif'), 'Got magic %s' % repr(magic) AssertionError: Got magic b'# Al' After digging for a while, I found that the above assertion is generated because the folder /usr/share/zoneinfo, that is scanned by the script, contains files that are not timezone descriptors, like for example 'leapseconds', 'zone1970.tab' and 'zone.tab'. It is possible to avoid this error by exporting the timezone with: TZ='Europe/Rome'; export TZ It would be better to modify the script like this: try: import pytz from pytz.exceptions import UnknownTimeZoneError try: if pytz.timezone(zonename) is not None: zonefilelist[hashlib.md5(open(filepath, 'rb').rea$ except UnknownTimeZoneError as ValueError: # we expect timezone failures here, just move over pass --> except AssertionError: --> # there may be files in the folder that generate assertion --> pass except ImportError: zonefilelist[hashlib.md5(open(filepath, 'rb').read()).hex Regards, Paolo 101358 1 david.reyna 2025-03-13 04:49:25 +0000 CentOS 8 is EOL