[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#677898: initscripts: motd fails to be generated after upgrade to Wheezy

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-22.1
Severity: important

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Since upgrading to Wheezy, this host no longer produces /var/run/motd upon bootup, as a result of which only 'lastlog' output is displayed upon login. /etc/motd.tail has the stock content provided by pkg:base-files. Manually executing /etc/init.d/bootlogs as root succeeds, which suggests that the problem is somewhere else. Likewise, the script is linked via /etc/rc2.d/, so this is not it either. Help to find the cause of this issue is welcome.

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  coreutils       8.13-3.2
ii  debianutils     4.3.1
ii  libc6           2.13-33
ii  lsb-base        4.1+Debian6
ii  mount           2.20.1-5
ii  sysv-rc         2.88dsf-22.1
ii  sysvinit-utils  2.88dsf-22.1
ii  ucf             3.0025+nmu3

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  e2fsprogs  1.42.2-2
ii  psmisc     22.16-1

initscripts suggests no packages.

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