If you can reproduce it at least some times, I have some suggestions: - hack the script to only run if you login as a certain user. In that way, you can trigger it by logging in as, say, "ubuntu", and don't run if you login as someone else. Something like this (untested):
--- /usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper 2012-06-13 18:10:15.000000000 -0300 +++ landscape-sysinfo.wrapper 2012-07-18 09:21:29.868717152 -0300 @@ -2,6 +2,10 @@ cores=$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo 2>/dev/null) [ "$cores" -eq "0" ] && cores=1 threshold="${cores:-1}.0" +if [ "$USER" = "safeuser" ]; then + echo "Not running landscape-sysinfo because logging in as user 'safeuser'" + exit 0 +fi if [ $(echo "`cut -f1 -d ' ' /proc/loadavg` < $threshold" | bc) -eq 1 ]; then echo echo -n " System information as of " Then you can observe what happens when it stalls. You could also use the above plus strace the landscape-sysinfo script, but that *may* prevent the bug from happening. Something like this: --- /usr/share/landscape/landscape-sysinfo.wrapper 2012-06-13 18:10:15.000000000 -0300 +++ landscape-sysinfo.wrapper 2012-07-18 09:22:56.466115731 -0300 @@ -2,12 +2,16 @@ cores=$(grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo 2>/dev/null) [ "$cores" -eq "0" ] && cores=1 threshold="${cores:-1}.0" +if [ "$USER" = "safeuser" ]; then + echo "Not running landscape-sysinfo because logging in as user 'safeuser'" + exit 0 +fi if [ $(echo "`cut -f1 -d ' ' /proc/loadavg` < $threshold" | bc) -eq 1 ]; then echo echo -n " System information as of " /bin/date echo - /usr/bin/landscape-sysinfo + strace -f -o /tmp/sysinfo.strace /usr/bin/landscape-sysinfo else echo echo " System information disabled due to load higher than $threshold" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/805423 Title: pam_motd needs a module option to disable in-line dynamic updates To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/landscape-client/+bug/805423/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs