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

[Martin-Éric Racine]

2012/6/18 Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net>:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 07:08:27PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It shouldn't be like that in wheezy (yet).  But there was a bug in
> base-files.  In unstable, initscripts replaces /etc/init.d/bootlogs
> with /etc/init.d/motd.  Note also the changes to /etc/pam.d/(ssh|login).

Which version of base-files fixed what issue exactly? What changes to
PAM behavior?  How do I investigate this?

Martin-Éric