last and lastb not working in precise and oneiric cloud images

[Juerg Haefliger]

Because the files /var/log/wtmp and /var/log/btmp are missing.

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[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

This affects:
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/release/
http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I don't see how this would be a bug in sysvinit. sysvinit doesn't create/populate the files, it only provides the tool that reads them. How have you logged in to the system? Normally the pam_lastlog module populates this.

[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

Yeah I didn't think it was a sysvinit bug but I didn't know which package to attach the bug report to. I couldn't figure out how to mark it as a generic 'cloud images' problem rather than a package-specific problem. The pam modules obviously are installed in the images. All works well if I create the missing files manually. Are they usually created during installation time?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for sysvinit (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Juerg Haefliger (juergh)]

Who do I need to assign this to?