Timezone setting is gone after upgrade to Ubuntu Touch touchy

[Oliver Grawert]

upgrading from saucy to trusty via:

phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel trusty-proposed

obviously keeps all my settings (german language is still selected etc) but wipes the TZ setup. i am back to a UTC+0 TZ after upgrade.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

I don't see how this can be a bug in the system settings application. I'll reassign to ubuntu-system-image and it can be further triaged from there.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Can you please copy&paste the output of "ls -lR /etc/timezone /etc/localtime /etc/writable" after the upgrade?

[Iain Lane (laney)]

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Oct 23 08:50 /etc/localtime -> writable/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Oct 23 08:50 /etc/timezone -> writable/timezone

/etc/writable/:
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118 Oct 22 14:03 localtime
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Oct 22 14:03 timezone

So the symlinks are fine, but the contents are not

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ cat /etc/timezone
Etc/UTC

It's a bigger problem than this. Its seems all writable directories in /userdata/system-data/ (user-data [home directory] is intact) were reset. One example of damage is accountsservice settings:

# Before flashing
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo gdbus call -y -d org.freedesktop.Accounts -o /org/freedesktop/Accounts/User32011 -m org.freedesktop.Accounts.User.SetBackgroundFile "/home/phablet/Pictures/Cherries.jpg"
[sudo] password for phablet:
()
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ more /var/lib/AccountsService/users/phablet
[com.canonical.unity.AccountsService]
demo-edges=false

[User]
Background=/home/phablet/Pictures/Cherries.jpg
SystemAccount=false

$ phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel=trusty-proposed
[…]
# demo-edges is false because I skipped the (erroneosly re-shown due to this bug) intro; what's important is that Background is missing
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ more /var/lib/AccountsService/users/phablet
[com.canonical.unity.AccountsService]
demo-edges=false

[User]
SystemAccount=false

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Also click packages (/opt/click.ubuntu.com) are gone, which I expect to be this bug too

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

if it turns out to be the same bug after confirmation, bug 1243577 should probably be duplicated