Duplicate fsck information in /etc/motd

[Marius Gedminas]

Occasionaly I ssh into an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server and see this:

    *** /dev/md0 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
    *** /dev/md0 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
    *** /dev/md3 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
    *** /dev/md3 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
    *** /dev/md4 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
    *** /dev/md4 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
    *** /dev/md2 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
    *** /dev/md2 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
    *** /dev/md1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
    *** /dev/md1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***

As far as I can tell this happens if two logins happen more or less simultaneously, since /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot does not use any locking.

Once I've seen the information repeated three times.

This is very similar to LP#1146170, except in a different script.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-notifier-common 0.119ubuntu8.6 [modified: usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-updates-available]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-52.78-generic 3.2.48
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-52-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.5
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 16 17:28:40 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-07-31 (442 days ago)

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Similar to bug 1146170, I could reproduce this with

    bzr branch lp:update-notifier && cd update-notifier
    sudo -s
    rm /var/lib/update-notifier/fsck-at-reboot; data/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot & data/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot

and I cannot reproduce it any more after my fix in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mgedmin/update-notifier/fix-lp1240549/revision/830

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

I've merged this, thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.148

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update-notifier (0.148) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * data/update-motd-updates-available: Update the stamp file atomically.
    Thanks to Marius Gedminas! (LP: #1146170)

  [ Brian Murray ]
  * In the upstart crash notification job fix the path for watershed.
  * debian/update-notifier-crash.conf: check that we have read permission on
    the crash file before launching apport-gtk, additionally just launch
    apport-gtk or system-crash-notification as they will check for new crashes
    and start bug filing for each one (LP: #1193509)
  * data/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot: Update the stamp file atomically.
    Thanks to Marius Gedminas! (LP: #1240549)
 -- Brian Murray <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Nov 2013 15:32:25 -0800