Landscape Client

dpkg-reconfigure landscape-common broken for intrepid and jaunty

Bug #410378 reported by Andreas Hasenack on 2009-08-07

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Landscape Client	Fix Released	High	Free Ekanayaka	Landscape Client 1.3.4

Bug Description

I have been testing the landscape-client packages at https://launchpad.net/~free.ekanayaka/+archive/ppa in preparation for a SRU request.

After the update, dpkg-reconfigure landscape-common doesn't work anymore, meaning it just says:
"""
usermod: no changes
"""

Before it would allow to chose how to run landscape-sysinfo (see attached screenshot):
- do not display sysinfo at login
- use update-motd
- run on every login

Therve suspects the bug was introduced because karmic no longer uses update-motd, but intrepid and jaunty do.

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/karmic/landscape-client

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2009-08-07:

screenshot_001.png Edit (52.8 KiB, image/png)

And now the screenshot

Changed in landscape-client:
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → 1.3.4
assignee:	nobody → Free Ekanayaka (free.ekanayaka)

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Free Ekanayaka (free.ekanayaka) wrote on 2009-08-10:

This happens because the client's trunk is missing the debian/landscape-common.config file, which was probably present in the non-trunk-based branches the intrepid/jaunty packages were built against.

I've added the file and everything is fine.

Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) on 2009-08-10

tags:

added: review

Free Ekanayaka (free.ekanayaka) on 2009-08-13

Changed in landscape-client:
status:	New → In Progress

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Jamu Kakar (jkakar) wrote on 2009-08-14:

+1, thanks for explaining the details!

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Thomas Herve (therve) wrote on 2009-08-14:

Thanks for spotting the problem, +1!

tags:

removed: review

Free Ekanayaka (free.ekanayaka) on 2009-08-14

Changed in landscape-client:
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Jamu Kakar (jkakar) on 2009-08-27

tags:

added: needs-testing

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2009-08-28:

Tested, qa + 1

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Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack) wrote on 2009-08-28:

Just a note, update-motd apparently has a bug in jaunty:
<andreas> kirkland`: hey
<andreas> kirkland`: I'm testing update-motd + landscape-sysinfo on jaunty
<andreas> kirkland`: I may have found a problem, I don't think the files in /var/run/$NAME/<scriptoutput> are ever cleared
<andreas> kirkland`: I removed landscape-sysinfo and /var/run/motd keeps the old output forever, and /var/run/$NAME/50-landscape-sysinfo still exists from previous runs
<andreas> kirkland`: intrepid doesn't have this bug