Ubuntu
update-motd package

motd printed twiceat login, since a couple of days

Bug #400131 reported by Martin-Éric Racine
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-motd (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Dustin Kirkland 
Ubuntu karmic-alpha-3

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-motd

Since a couple days, update-motd is apparently ran twice at login, which results in the MOTD message content being repeated twice:

<meracine@eesti:/home/meracine>$ ssh geode.lan
Linux geode 2.6.30-10-generic #12-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 22 16:30:39 UTC 2009 i586

To access official Ubuntu documentation, please visit:
http://help.ubuntu.com/

0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

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Last login: Thu Jul 16 11:23:01 2009 from eesti.lan
Linux geode 2.6.30-10-generic #12-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jun 22 16:30:39 UTC 2009 i586

To access official Ubuntu documentation, please visit:
http://help.ubuntu.com/

0 packages can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

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<q-funk@geode:/home/q-funk>$

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jul 16 11:26:06 2009
Dependencies:
 debianutils 2.30ubuntu3
 findutils 4.4.2-1
 gcc-4.4-base 4.4.0-11ubuntu1
 libc6 2.9-9ubuntu2
 libgcc1 1:4.4.0-11ubuntu1
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: update-motd 3.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=fi_FI:fi:en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-10.12-generic
SourcePackage: update-motd
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-10-generic i586

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/update-motd
Revision history for this message
Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 400131] [NEW] motd printed twiceat login, since a couple of days

The update-motd package is in the process of going away.

This should be cleaned up within the next few days, by Alpha3.

:-Dustin

Changed in update-motd (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → Low
assignee: nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
milestone: none → karmic-alpha-3
status: In Progress → New
Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)
Changed in update-motd (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-motd - 3.3-0ubuntu1

---------------
update-motd (3.3-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Dustin Kirkland ]
  * control, dirs, install, rules: this package is now just a placeholder,
    depending on libpam-modules which provides pam_motd; empty out the
    installed contents of this package; leaving the sources in bzr for
    historical purposes (ah, memories); LP: #399071, #400131

  [ Loïc Minier ]
  * Call dh_installchangelogs to install debian/changelog in /usr/share/doc.
  * Drop references to build-stamp, configure-stamp and the configure target
    ase these aren't used.
  * Call dh_* with -i in binary-indep.
  * Strip boilerplate from rules.
  * Drop useless dirs from debian/dirs.
  * Drop unused/bogus po-debconf from build-deps.
  * Use debian/manpages instead of args to dh_installman for consistency.

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:33:44 -0500

Changed in update-motd (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Martin-Éric Racine (q-funk) wrote :

It could be a good idea to mark this package as transitional, in the short description, since /etc/update-motd.d/ is already provided by base-files, update-manager-core and update-notifier-common, thus completely deprecating update-motd. The addition of (transitional dummy package) to the short description would make it easier for upgrade tools to spot and purge update-motd completely.

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