Recently while debugging some issues we found that we were missing timezone related files into Yocto root filesystem, the debugging with strace shown the following error,
open("/usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
The poky has a recipe for compiling the relevant files at poky/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/ hence you can use below command to compile it,
$ bitbake tzdata
Once you have it compiled, you can add this files to the root filesystem by adding into IMAGE_INSTALL as,
IMAGE_INSTALL += "tzdata"
Now, after you boot this newly created root filesystem, we will get following messages at same place where it was failed previously in strace,
open("/etc/localtime", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 16
fstat64(16, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=127, ...}) = 0
fstat64(16, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=127, ...}) = 0
read(16, "TZif2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 127
_llseek(16, -6, [121], SEEK_CUR) = 0
read(16, "\nUTC0\n", 4096) = 6
close(16) = 0
Hi,
Please have a look at the tzdata.bb file available at https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/plain/meta/recipes-extended/tzdata/tzdata_2018e.bb . tzdata seems to be providing sub-packages like tzdata-australia, tzdata-europe, tzdata-asia, etc. Add one of them according to your needs.