Public bug reported:
I noticed this behavior when upgrading from 10.04.1 -> 10.04.3. The
following code (inside initscripts.postinst) will always remove
/etc/motd.tail if there is any character (even a single space) in the
file. If the file is empty, it appears to be left alone.
<code>
help_text=$(/etc/update-motd.d/10-help-text 2>/dev/null || true)
if [ -n "$help_text" ] && fgrep -q "$help_text" /etc/motd.tail
then
rm -f /etc/motd.tail
# Rebuild the motd now that motd.tail has been fixed.
[..]
fi
</code>
The 'fgrep -q "$help_text" /etc/motd.tail' *always* matches if the file
is non-null. This is bad in that it wipes out custom modifications to
the motd.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: initscripts 2.87dsf-4ubuntu23
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 19 14:18:15 2011
SourcePackage: sysvinit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (173 days ago)
** Affects: sysvinit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 natty
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initscripts.postinst always removes /etc/motd.tail
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