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Thomas Aichinger
Asked: 2020-11-02 03:30:07 +0800 CST

Message of the day exited with return code 2

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I have Ubuntu 18.04 and Message of the day does not work anymore. When I login no information is shown.

When I run

run-parts /etc/update-motd.d/

I get an error

run-parts: /etc/update-motd.d//50-landscape-sysinfo exited with return code 2

How can I fix this?

login motd

3 Answers

  1. I have experienced that, too. What fixed it for me is by reverting to an earlier version of Twisted. The issue started occurring on Twisted version 21.2.0. I uninstalled that version by executing:

    sudo pip uninstall twisted

    Then, installed Twisted again, but this time using the version 20.3.0 by executing this:

    sudo pip install twisted==20.3.0
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  2. I found the reason!

    On this computer is vmware vsphere-cli 6.7 installed. It installs an own version of python six lib with a python cache file six.pyc.

    This cache file produced an import error in /usr/bin/landscape-sysinfo, which in turn exited with error 2.

    All I had to do was, remove the cache files.

    rm /usr/src/vmware-vsphere-cli-distrib/bin/six.pyc
rm /usr/bin/six.pyc

    They were rebuilt after first run.

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  3. I had to do some more things.

    apt remove python-twisted
apt remove python3-twisted
apt install python-pip
apt install python3-pip
pip install twisted==20.3.0
pip3 install twisted==20.3.0

    That solved it for me.

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