The command output describes the bug : $ timedatectl Local time: jeu., 2012-11-22 14:50:18 CET Universal time: jeu., 2012-11-22 13:50:18 UTC RTC time: jeu., 2012-11-22 13:50:17 Timezone: Europe/Paris UTC offset: +0100 NTP enabled: no NTP synchronized: no RTC in local TZ: no DST active: no Assertion 'strftime(a, sizeof(a), "%a, %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z", localtime_r(&t, &tm)) > 0' failed at src/timedate/timedatectl.c:171, function print_status_info(). Aborting. Abandon (core dumped) I think it was introduced by this commit : http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/src/shared/util.h?id=684341b073c4c5f7339e14ebc6a3e0df849e4eb7 #define FORMAT_TIMESTAMP_MAX (5+11+9+4+1) 5 is for weekday+comma+space, but week days in french have 4 digits.
That seems to be the reason for the failure. Thanks a lot for nice and precise report. Fix committed: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=79263d03926af6e0a7f97bf70afb2cd37bdcf9db $ LANG=fr_FR ./timedatectl Local time: jeu., 2012-11-22 18:49:43 CET Universal time: jeu., 2012-11-22 17:49:43 UTC RTC time: jeu., 2012-11-22 17:49:43 Timezone: Europe/Berlin UTC offset: +0100 NTP enabled: yes NTP synchronized: yes RTC in local TZ: no DST active: no Last DST change, DST became inactive dim., 2012-10-28 02:59:59 CEST dim., 2012-10-28 02:00:00 CET Next DST change, DST will become active, the clock will jump one hour forward dim., 2013-03-31 01:59:59 CET dim., 2013-03-31 03:00:00 CEST
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