From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Distopico <distopico@riseup.net>
Cc: 68411@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#68411: Timezone not detected from /etc/localtime
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:14:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7dawnle.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874jf2ydf4.fsf@riseup.net> (distopico@riseup.net's message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:00:36 -0500")
Hello,
Distopico <distopico@riseup.net> writes:
> On 2024-01-18, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Distopico <distopico@riseup.net> writes:
>>
>>> Apps such as Icecat or ungoogled-chromium are not able to get the
>>> correct timezone from /etc/localtime when `/etc/localtime` is a realpath
>>> maybe because it expect /etc/share/zoneinfo, with readlink partially
>>> works fine some apps, maybe related with an icu bug.[1]
>>
>> I don't know about ungoogled-chromium, but for IceCat, I had
>> investigated the problem at length in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/59368,
>> and it seems the bug is not in ICU but in Firefox, triggered in very
>> specific situations (resistFingerprinting defaults to true before user
>> prefs are loaded, and resetting the timezone fails in some javascript
>> that expects /etc/localtime to be a symlink, see:
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1817004#c8).
>
> But in icecat there is tow issues, one is related with the
> /etc/localtime that expect a symlink but also there is another one
> related with firefox sandbox, you can see here that `/usr` and `/nix`
> was added to a whitelist, those paths is where they expect have the
> zoneinfo files and `/gnu` is not in that whitelist (I already reported
> to firefox), and disabling `MOZ_DISABLE_CONTENT_SANDBOX=1` it and with
> the symlink the timezone works again.
In the meantime would you be able to produce a patch adding /gnu to
their allowlist? Then we'd have to look into the javascript code to see
if we can have it understand an actual file instead of symlink.
--
Thanks,
Maxim
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-01-12 22:41 bug#68411: Timezone not detected from /etc/localtime Distopico
2024-01-19 4:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-01-24 15:00 ` Distopico
2024-01-24 19:14 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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