BIOS "power on at specified time" stops working if "tzdata" not updated after 14 days

[Craig West]

Binary package hint: tzdata

My backup server is configured in BIOS to auto power on at 0300 daily and backup my main server.

I recently realised that for the last week it has not been powering on and running backups. When I look in the syslog I can see that it was running fine until a week ago and has not powered on since.

"sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows one package "tzdata" awaiting installation on this machine. I can see that this package became available 2 weeks before BIOS auto power on stopped working - it was reported as available for 14 days and on the 15th day (and every day since) the auto power on did not happen.

Having manually installed the "tzdata" update, the server is now working correctly again.

The exact same problem happened many months ago and by looking back through logs I can see that again it happened 14 days after a "tzdata" update became available. On that previous occasion when I installed this package manually the server again started powering up correctly.

As such there seems to be some link between "tzdata" packages available but not installed, and the ability of BIOS auto power on to function correctly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Jun 30 22:54:21 2010
SourcePackage: tzdata

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

I am really puzzled how a pending update for tzdata could cause this behavior. Do you still have that server and experience this problem?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for tzdata (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]