Error initializing time zones: Error resolving local time zone

[cappadaan]

Bug Description:

My log shows this warning:

[Mon May 19 07:18:55.181 2025] [150597] WARNING: Error initializing time zones: Error resolving local time zone from '/etc/localtime' and time zone dir '/usr/share/zoneinfo/'

But both exist and are valid

[server@server ~]$ ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 35 Dec 13 2022 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin

Result is that timezone is incorrect, log time is 2 hours too early.

Manticore Search Version:

9.3.2

Operating System Version:

AlmaLinux

Have you tried the latest development version?

None

Internal Checklist:

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[sanikolaev]

@cappadaan can you please run

ls -la /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin

?

If there's an easy way to reproduce this in a clean Linux, pls let us know.

If you made the symlink yourself, can you also try to remake it to an absolute path to the timezone file?

[cappadaan]

[server@server config]$ ls -la /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin -rw-r--r-- 6 root root 2298 Mar 31 05:48 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin

This is a clean almalinux install, we didnt touch anything.

[sanikolaev]

This is a clean almalinux install, we didnt touch anything.

What's the version of AlmaLinux?

[cappadaan]

9.5, but its al the way updated from 8.9 as the initial install.

[sanikolaev]

Reproduced in:

• Ubuntu Jammy - can be solved by apt install tzdata
• Alma Linux 9 - the above w/o doesn't help. /etc/localtime includes this:

  [root@3fc7b19f15e1 /]# cat /etc/localtime
  TZif2UTCTZif2UTC
  UTC0
  

We need to solve the both issues.

[cyformatician]

Also reproduced in macOS.