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

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

* Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> [240704 01:48]:
> 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.

As said on IRC, the new version enables logind integration, and in
turn does not call update_utmp anymore.

[..]
> It opens a new tty with "login -f root" and then issues "shutdown -r"
> on it.

Maybe the test case relies on utmp data there.

> The same thing can be verified manually.

Do you have a copy-pastable repro?

Chris