Yet Another James Green Web Developer, Aquarist

Ubuntu shell login bug solved

If you're seeing the following on login (ssh) to an Ubuntu machine:

Linux blofeld 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 01:41:57 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10

Welcome to Ubuntu!
* Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

System information disabled due to load higher than 1
Last login: Fri Jan 21 10:40:10 2011 from 10.0.0.84

Instead of the more informative:

Linux blofeld 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 01:41:57 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 10.10

Welcome to Ubuntu!
* Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/

Your CPU appears to be lacking expected security protections.
Please check your BIOS settings, or for more information, run:
/usr/bin/check-bios-nx --verbose

System information as of Fri Jan 21 11:19:55 GMT 2011

System load:  0.61               Processes:           123
Usage of /:   40.8% of 72.65GB   Users logged in:     1
Memory usage: 58%                IP address for eth0: 10.0.0.29
Swap usage:   0%

Graph this data and manage this system at https://landscape.canonical.com/

Last login: Fri Jan 21 11:15:57 2011 from 10.0.0.84

And you happen to know your CPU load is indeed less than one (why one..?) then I have a fix:

sudo apt-get install update-notifier-common

Behold, it worked for me! (And now there's a bug for it to be fixed, too.)