For the Lucid SRU: Impact of bug: upon ssh'ing in or otherwise logging into a machine and being presented with the motd banner, you will see a double banner. One comes from /etc/motd symlinked to /var/run/motd, which is normal. The other comes from a bogus copy put into /etc/motd.tail.
Package uploaded to lucid-proposed fixes this in two ways. First, it does not copy /etc/motd into /etc/motd.tail if the former is a symlink. Second, it backports a stanza from the oneiric debian/initscripts.postinst file to remove the bogus /etc/motd.tail when it recognizes it contains the double banner. For the patch, see the diff in comment #28 above. TEST CASE: * If you already have a Lucid machine that exhibits the double banner, install 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17.4 from lucid-proposed and you should see /etc/motd.tail being removed. * If you do not see the double banner, consider yourself lucky! But to reproduce it just execute this as root: $ sed 1d /etc/motd > /etc/motd.tail then install the new version and you should see /etc/motd.tail removed * To verify that /etc/motd.tail does not return after it's been removed either: ** before you install 2.87dsf-4ubuntu17.4, manually rm -f /etc/motd.tail, then upgrade, and motd.tail will not return ** if you've already installed the new version, just `apt-get install --reinstall` and see that motd.tail does not return Regression potential: * Someone with a valid /etc/motd.tail could get it accidentally removed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Linaro Release Team, which is a direct subscriber. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/659738 Title: Duplicate welcome message in motd (caused by postinst script creating motd.tail file) Status in “sysvinit” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “sysvinit” source package in Lucid: In Progress Status in “sysvinit” source package in Maverick: Fix Released Status in “sysvinit” source package in Natty: Fix Released Status in “sysvinit” package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: Binary package hint: landscape-client e.g.: Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #34-Ubuntu SMP Sun Oct 10 09:26:05 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Ubuntu 10.10 Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ System information as of Wed Oct 13 09:57:20 CEST 2010 System load: 0.26 Processes: 172 Usage of /home: 82.7% of 50.60GB Users logged in: 1 Memory usage: 42% IP address for eth0: 192.168.1.1 Swap usage: 0% Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/ Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Welcome to Ubuntu! * Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/ System information as of Mon Oct 11 10:13:53 CEST 2010 System load: 0.85 Processes: 246 Usage of /home: 82.5% of 50.60GB Users logged in: 1 Memory usage: 37% IP address for eth0: 192.168.1.1 Swap usage: 0% => There are 4 zombie processes. Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/ *** System restart required *** _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~linaro-release Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~linaro-release More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
