pam_motd: no longer cats the motd.tail component
Bug #498968 reported by
Martin-Éric Racine
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Since a few days, in Lucid, whenever logging in via SSH, the motd only displays the output of 'uname -a' and skips the display of /etc/legal or of possible package update notifications. This is a regression from Karmic.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Dec 21 09:26:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: libpam-modules 1.1.0-4ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: pam
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i586
tags: | removed: regression-potential |
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/etc/legal is only displayed once per user by design, with a flag set in ~/.cache/ motd.legal- displayed. So that's not a regression.
As for /etc/motd.tail, I suspect this file is empty on your system. I've seen this problem in lucid as well; on console, the following explanation is output:
run-parts: /etc/update- motd.d/ 91-release- upgrade exited with return code 1
That's a bug in the update-manager hook (it should not exit non-zero except on a failure to generate correct output). Reassigning this bug to the update-manager package, since I can't seem to find an existing bug report about this.