update-motd not updating /etc/motd after LTS upgrade

[Helmut Schneider]

Marius Gedminas wrote:

>> What can I futher check?
>
> Your PAM configuration?
> 
>        Executable scripts in /etc/update-motd.d/* are executed by
>        pam_motd(8) as the root user at each login, and this
> information        is concatenated in /var/run/motd.  The order of
> script        execution is determined by the run-parts(8)
> --lsbsysinit option        (basically  alphabetical order, with a few
> caveats).
> 
>     --
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man5/update-motd.5.html

Already checked that but did not find any difference to a freshly
installed system:

helmut at mail:~$ sudo grep -ir pam_motd /etc/
/etc/pam.d/login:session    optional   pam_motd.so
/etc/pam.d/sshd:session    optional     pam_motd.so # [1]
helmut at mail:~$