OSMC's August update is here with Kodi 21.1 - OSMC

I updated this some time ago (there was a mirror that was misbehaving again).
But I will re-issue the image to avoid people accidentally clicking the old link or using the old version.

Please try downloading from Download - OSMC again.

The Download link on the website isn’t working for me now

Doesn’t seem that the new image is on the mirror

I’ll try again tomorrow.

Leave it with me.

Should all be solved now, thanks for your patience.

Sam

I can confirm the image is now working and I successfully re-installed my old Vero 4k+ straight to August 2024 release.
Thanks @sam_nazarko :slight_smile:

I noticed a while back on my vero that something was modifying /etc/timezone for me, at somewhat random intervals, and that was apparently causing the UI to show UTC rather than my preferred local timezone (Europe/Berlin).

I unsubtly “fixed” that by making /etc/timezone immutable (with chattr +i /etc/timezone) and have since had no problems with UTC showing up in the UI. I do however occasionally see this in my journal:

osmc mediacenter[2959]: /bin/mv: cannot move '/tmp/timezone' to '/etc/timezone': Operation not permitted

which is no surprise, but does suggest that your patch may now be part of the problem, rather than the solution.

Meanwhile I note that /etc/timezone has been obsolescent since 2016 (see: #822733 - tzdata: Drop /etc/timezone - Debian Bug report logs ) and that it will be going away soon (see: https://bugs.debian.org/1030850 )
so the real problem is probably that it is being used at all.

I assume that the correct fix would be to get the UI to deal with /etc/localtime properly instead.

If you check the patch, you’ll see that I already do.

I’m aware that localtime is going but for now it does exist in Debian. The patch has been in OSMC for several years so I don’t think it is an issue.

In your case, you should set the timezone in Kodi rather than make the file immutable. Then the timezone will be correct in the system and Kodi