This bug was fixed in the package base-files - 10.1ubuntu7.1
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base-files (10.1ubuntu7.1) cosmic; urgency=medium
* debian/motd-news.timer: Change the timer to use an OnCalendar entry as
that is correct for oneshot services. (LP: #1829968)
-- Brian Murray Mon, 08 Jul 2019 1
And the verification for Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) has also passed:
bdmurray@clean-cosmic-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy base-files
base-files:
Installed: 10.1ubuntu7.1
Candidate: 10.1ubuntu7.1
Version table:
*** 10.1ubuntu7.1 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
10.1ubuntu7 500
500 htt
This bug was fixed in the package base-files - 10.1ubuntu9.1
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base-files (10.1ubuntu9.1) disco; urgency=medium
* debian/motd-news.timer: Change the timer to use an OnCalendar entry as
that is correct for oneshot services. (LP: #1829968)
-- Brian Murray Mon, 08 Jul 2019 11
This bug was fixed in the package base-files - 10.1ubuntu2.5
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base-files (10.1ubuntu2.5) bionic; urgency=medium
* debian/motd-news.timer: Change the timer to use an OnCalendar entry as
that is correct for oneshot services. (LP: #1829968)
-- Brian Murray Mon, 08 Jul 2019 1
I've also verified this for Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) and it too passed.
bdmurray@clean-bionic-amd64:~$ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED UNIT
ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 11:04:56 PDT 19h left Tue 2019-07-16 15:46:33
I've verified this for Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) and it is good.
bdmurray@clean-disco-amd64:~$ systemctl list-timers motd* --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED
UNITACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-17 03:06:29 PDT 11h left Tue 2019-07-16 15:43:04 PDT
Hello Christian, or anyone else affected,
Accepted base-files into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-
files/10.1ubuntu2.5 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See
Hello Christian, or anyone else affected,
Accepted base-files into disco-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-
files/10.1ubuntu9.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See
h
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Disco)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Disco)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Cosmic)
** Description changed:
[Impact]
motd-news timer is not properly configured and may not run regularly so long
running systems will not get an updated motd
[Test Case]
- The system being tested must have curl installed - base-files does not depend
on it because reasons.
- 1) Run 'systemc
This bug was fixed in the package base-files - 10.2ubuntu4
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base-files (10.2ubuntu4) eoan; urgency=medium
* debian/motd-news.timer: Change the timer to use an OnCalendar entry
instead since neither OnActiveSec nor OnUnitActiveSec accomplished the
intended goal. (LP: #1829
The timer is still incorrect as we can see here:
$ systemctl list-timers --all
NEXT LEFT LAST PASSED
UNIT ACTIVATES
Wed 2019-07-03 10:31:55 PDT 36min leftWed 2019-07-03 09:31:58 PDT 23min
ago
** Description changed:
+ [Impact]
+ motd-news timer is not properly configured and may not run regularly so long
running systems will not get an updated motd
+
+ [Test Case]
+ The system being tested must have curl installed - base-files does not depend
on it because reasons.
+ 1) Run 'systemc
This bug was fixed in the package base-files - 10.2ubuntu3
---
base-files (10.2ubuntu3) eoan; urgency=medium
* debian/motd-news.timer: Switch the timer from OnUnitActiveSec to
OnUnitSec as the latter is correct for oneshot services. (LP: #1829968)
-- Brian Murray Thu, 13 Jun
** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Disco)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Eoan)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray (brian-murray)
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Eoan)
Status: Triaged => In Progress
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I booted multiple virtual machines to see if I could discover a
difference among releases and observed the following:
bdmurray@clean-cosmic-amd64:~$ systemctl status motd-news.timer
● motd-news.timer - Message of the Day
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/motd-news.timer; enabled; vendor prese
** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Eoan)
Importance: High
Status: Triaged
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Title:
motd [on at least some instances] does not auto-upda
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Title:
motd [on at least some instances] does not auto-update daily
To manage notifications about th
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Also affects: base-files (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: base-files (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided => High
I think this is related to
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6680, specifically this
comment:
"hmm, so OnUnitActiveSec= operates relative to a unit becoming active,
but Type=oneshot service units actually never become active, unless you
combine them with RemainAfterExit=, hence the confusi
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