[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1075733: login: broadcasted wall message no longer shown

[Luca Boccassi]

Package: login
Version: 1:4.15.2-3

Dear Maintainer(s),

since the new login version 1:4.15.2-3 has migrated to testing, an
upstream systemd test has started failing.
The issue is that the "broadcast" wall message on shutdown is no longer
detected by the test script running pexpect, a reboot is scheduled, and
the test sees "Reboot scheduled for Wed 2024-07-03 11:14:42 UTC, ..."
coming through. Before the change, it also could see "Broadcast message
from ..." but now it doesn't. Downgrading login to the previous version
fixes the issue.

This is the test case:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/test/units/TEST-69-SHUTDOWN.py

It opens a new tty with "login -f root" and then issues "shutdown -r"
on it. The same thing can be verified manually.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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