The following article will help you on how to fix the problem with tzdata package
Problem Condition:
admin@VOS-cli> request system package upgrade versa-flexvnf-20241025-111711-8bd4eda-22.1.3-B-wsm.bin
Will restart the appliance (all processes). Are you sure? [no,yes]yes
[admin@VOS: packages] $ 2025-01-27 11:43:39.618 INFO [31581] Some of the packages on this system are not correctly installed ...
2025-01-27 11:43:39.626 INFO [31581] Trying to resolve package inconsistencies...
2025-01-27 11:43:40.193 ERROR [31581] Failed to resolve following package inconsistencies...
2025-01-27 11:43:40.201 ERROR [31581] iF tzdata
2025-01-27 11:43:40.210 ERROR [31581] Please contact Versa Support
2025-01-27 11:43:40.232 INFO UPGRADE task ended.
[admin@VTODALQR01: packages] $ sudo dpkg -l | grep -v "ii"
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-=====================================-====================================================-============-===============================================================================
iF tzdata 2024a-0ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm1 all time zone and daylight-saving time data
Check what the timezone on the appliance from the shell, if they are configured legacy timezones (single word Zones like “CET”/"CST6CDT" ) and move to <Country>/<City> based zones like Asia/Kolkata or Europe/London or America/Chicago
How to fix:
From shell
sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/London <==used Europe/London as an example
Fix the package state using the below command
sudo dpkg --configure -a
Check the package state using the command below
sudo dpkg -l | grep -v "ii"
Supporting Article:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tzdata/+bug/2070285
Once, rectified then re-trigger the upgrade, if you still run into any issues contact us at [email protected]