/etc/legal is only displayed once per user by design, with a flag set in ~/.cache/motd.legal-displayed. So that's not a regression.
As for /etc/motd.tail, I suspect this file is empty on your system. I've seen this problem in lucid as well; on console, the following explanation is output: run-parts: /etc/update-motd.d/91-release-upgrade exited with return code 1 That's a bug in the update-manager hook (it should not exit non-zero except on a failure to generate correct output). Reassigning this bug to the update-manager package, since I can't seem to find an existing bug report about this. ** Package changed: pam (Ubuntu) => update-manager (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- pam_motd: no longer cats the motd.tail component https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/498968 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs