/etc/motd tells me to read ~/.landscape/sysinfo.log which does not exist

[Marius Gedminas]

Binary package hint: landscape-client

I ssh into a server and see /etc/motd which says:

   There were exceptions while processing one or more plugins.
   See ~/.landscape/sysinfo.log for more information.

I look for ~/.landscape/sysinfo.log, but it doesn't exist.

The error message should contain the correct log file path, which in my case turned out to be /var/log/landscape/sysinfo.log

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

What is the version of landscape-common, and what distro?

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

1.4.0-0ubuntu0.9.04.0 from Ubuntu Jaunty.

Sorry about that, I reported one bug with apport, which automatically attaches this kind of info, and then found this handy "Report another bug" link at the bottom of the page.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

Looking at /usr/share/pyshared/landscape/sysinfo/sysinfo.py on my Karmic laptop I see that it still refers to ~/.landscape/sysinfo.log unconditionally (SysInfoPluginRegistry._report_error_note).

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

This confusion comes from the fact that initially landscape-sysinfo had two running modes: at every login, and via cron.

When run via cron, there is no user logging in, so any backtraces would be stored in /var/log. But when run at login time, we are executing as an user, so we had to write somewhere else. That's where the ~/.landscape comes from.

Are the backtraces in your /var/log/landscape/sysinfo.log file old by any change? Perhaps this machine was upgraded from an older distro instead of being a new installation?

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

The oldest entry in /var/log/landscape/sysinfo.log is dated 2009-07-24, the newest is dated today (2010-02-05).

The machine was a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 server back when it was installed; it's never been upgraded.

locate sysinfo.log tells me there is only one file with this name in my system, and it's the one in /var/log/landscape/.

I'm not quite sure how all this is relevant: if the update-motd landscape sysinfo plugin encounters an error, surely it should mention the correct log filename, no matter which one it happens to be using?

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Of course, it is a bug, and a developer even already attached a candidate fix for it here. I was just curious how this file showed up in /var/log in a recent version, which doesn't use cron anymore.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.4-0ubuntu0.10.04

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landscape-client (1.4.4-0ubuntu0.10.04) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #519200):
    - Add a message for creating package locks (LP: #514334)
    - Add support for auto-approved change-packages messages (LP: #517175)
    - Add support for installing server-generated debian packages (LP: #509752)
    - Add support for reporting Eucalyptus topology information (LP: #518501)
    - Fix timeout while inserting large free-space message (LP: #218388)
    - Fix wrong log path in motd (LP: #517454)
    - Fix race condition in process excecution (LP: #517453)
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:50:53 +0100

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted landscape-client into intrepid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted landscape-client into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted landscape-client into karmic-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Confirmed in staging.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.4-0ubuntu0.9.10

---------------
landscape-client (1.4.4-0ubuntu0.9.10) karmic-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #519200):
    - Add a message for creating package locks (LP: #514334)
    - Add support for auto-approved change-packages messages (LP: #517175)
    - Add support for installing server-generated debian packages (LP: #509752)
    - Add support for reporting Eucalyptus topology information (LP: #518501)
    - Fix timeout while inserting large free-space message (LP: #218388)
    - Fix wrong log path in motd (LP: #517454)
    - Fix race condition in process excecution (LP: #517453)
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:49:25 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.4-0ubuntu0.9.04

---------------
landscape-client (1.4.4-0ubuntu0.9.04) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #519200):
    - Add a message for creating package locks (LP: #514334)
    - Add support for auto-approved change-packages messages (LP: #517175)
    - Add support for installing server-generated debian packages (LP: #509752)
    - Add support for reporting Eucalyptus topology information (LP: #518501)
    - Fix timeout while inserting large free-space message (LP: #218388)
    - Fix wrong log path in motd (LP: #517454)
    - Fix race condition in process excecution (LP: #517453)
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:41:52 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package landscape-client - 1.4.4-0ubuntu0.8.10

---------------
landscape-client (1.4.4-0ubuntu0.8.10) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #519200):
    - Add a message for creating package locks (LP: #514334)
    - Add support for auto-approved change-packages messages (LP: #517175)
    - Add support for installing server-generated debian packages (LP: #509752)
    - Add support for reporting Eucalyptus topology information (LP: #518501)
    - Fix timeout while inserting large free-space message (LP: #218388)
    - Fix wrong log path in motd (LP: #517454)
    - Fix race condition in process excecution (LP: #517453)
 -- Free Ekanayaka <email address hidden> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:40:45 +0100