Comment 6 for bug 525674

This is really painful - although I don't experience complete hangs, I do experience 12-second+ delays while
the script "90-updates-available" grinds slowly though. So login via SSH is unpleasantly slow. Furthermore, bash completion for tab completion on scp commands is also very slow.

The workaround is: chmod -x /etc/update-motd.d/*

However, it seems to me that this should be a cron-job which runs once an hour (and @reboot). There's no need for it to happen at the precise moment where I log in.