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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 1998 21:31:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      beefa@goats.org.au
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   bin/5862: utmp keeps getting corrupted, w failing
Message-ID:  <199802270531.VAA22878@hub.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         5862
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       utmp keeps getting corrupted, w failing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Feb 26 21:40:02 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Roland Scott
>Organization:
>Release:        3.0-current
>Environment:
FreeBSD foetus.goats.org.au 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #2:
Fri Feb 27 03:03:41 WST 1998    root@foetus.goats.org.au:/usr/src/sys/compile/FOETUS  i386
>Description:
utmp file corrupting itself, seem to be when i start X, if i remove and touch utmp, problem goes away for a while but then comes back
[root@foetus:~] w
w: /dev//root: No such file or directory 
who prints garbage 
[root@foetus:~] who
root             ttyv0   Feb 27 13:19
:0.0             root    Jan  1 08:00   (%Mö4ttyp1)


>How-To-Repeat:
corrupt utmp
>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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