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Updates available messages still showing after logout and login

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I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04 and am seeing a new (albeit minor) problem. After I apply updates and logout, then on the next login, the same messages are still shown, even though there are no updates required.

It takes another logout/login for the updates available messages to be hidden as expected. This never used to happen with 12.04.

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I'm continuing to see this problem. The update info is always delayed by 1 log in/log out cycle compared with what it should be! Makes no sense.

The solution was to disable the caching of update messages by editing these two files:

/etc/pam.d/sshd

/etc/pam.d/login

Delete "noupdate" from this line:

session optional pam_motd.so motd=/run/motd.dynamic noupdate

I generally log in once a week and I now have available update messages that accurately show the current state rather than being stale by a week.

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