** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Released
** Also affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Eoan)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
[ Impact ]
- * Desktop users of WSL are 'dropped into' the Ubuntu shell instead of
logging in to the WSL container, thus they don't see MOTD. Then don't get
information about the system's state via desktop notifications either, because
the default Ubuntu WSL system does not start the Ubuntu desktop.
- * To show important system information to users being dropped to a shell
directly the show-motd package was created to show MOTD using a /etc/profile.d
script.
- * To have this script in place ubuntu-wsl needs to recommend show-motd.
+ * Desktop users of WSL are 'dropped into' the Ubuntu shell instead of
logging in to the WSL container, thus they don't see MOTD. Then don't get
information about the system's state via desktop notifications either, because
the default Ubuntu WSL system does not start the Ubuntu desktop.
+ * To show important system information to users being dropped to a shell
directly the show-motd package was created to show MOTD using a /etc/profile.d
script.
+ * To have this script in place ubuntu-wsl needs to recommend show-motd.
[ Test Case ]
- * Use 'apt-cache show ubuntu-wsl' to check if ubuntu-wsl recommends
+ * Use 'apt-cache show ubuntu-wsl' to check if ubuntu-wsl recommends
update-motd.
[ Regression Potential ]
- * Pulling in a /etc/profile.d script that exits can make the started
+ * Pulling in a /etc/profile.d script that exits can make the started
shell exit immediately. For this reason the shell does not exit in any
case. The script can also throw confusing errors. To avoid such errors
the script is tested in an autopkgtest and many related packages were
fixed where errors were observed. The update-motd package adds Breaks:
against related package versions which are known to show errors in MOTD
when being run as a regular user. See LP: #1855271 for more details.
+
+ [ Other Info ]
+
+ * The SRU upload to Eoan waits for the acceptance of update-motd to
+ Eoan and also for the seed merge.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1855549
Title:
ubuntu-wsl: Please recommend show-motd
Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-meta source package in Eoan:
New
Bug description:
[ Impact ]
* Desktop users of WSL are 'dropped into' the Ubuntu shell instead of
logging in to the WSL container, thus they don't see MOTD. Then don't get
information about the system's state via desktop notifications either, because
the default Ubuntu WSL system does not start the Ubuntu desktop.
* To show important system information to users being dropped to a shell
directly the show-motd package was created to show MOTD using a /etc/profile.d
script.
* To have this script in place ubuntu-wsl needs to recommend show-motd.
[ Test Case ]
* Use 'apt-cache show ubuntu-wsl' to check if ubuntu-wsl recommends
update-motd.
[ Regression Potential ]
* Pulling in a /etc/profile.d script that exits can make the started
shell exit immediately. For this reason the shell does not exit in any
case. The script can also throw confusing errors. To avoid such errors
the script is tested in an autopkgtest and many related packages were
fixed where errors were observed. The update-motd package adds Breaks:
against related package versions which are known to show errors in
MOTD when being run as a regular user. See LP: #1855271 for more
details.
[ Other Info ]
* The SRU upload to Eoan waits for the acceptance of update-motd to
Eoan and also for the seed merge.
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