Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 07:37:58 -0700 (PDT) From: mcdougall@ameritech.net To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/4483: w, who, and the like are broken Message-ID: <199709071437.HAA20546@hub.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <199709071440.HAA20687@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 4483
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: w, who, and the like are broken
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Sep 7 07:40:00 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Adam McDougall
>Organization:
>Release: 3.0-current, world built Sat. night
>Environment:
FreeBSD bsdx.dyn.ml.org 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Sep 7 01:45:46 EDT 1997 user1@bsdx.dyn.ml.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/BSDXKRNL i386
>Description:
When I'm running X, not all users show up with the command w, who, or finger, and sometimes a fake username ttyp3 shows up. For example, now I have a virtual console and 4 xterms logged in and open. Yet this is the outpute of w:
bsdx: {10} w
10:34AM up 8:40, 2 users, load averages: 0.38, 0.32, 0.33
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
user1 v0 - 9:21AM 1:09 xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xi
ttyp3 :0.0 10:15AM 1:33 -
This is certainly odd, and it is something that would be very handy if it worked correctly again :)
Note: I have tried clearing /var/run/utmp and I've tried rebooting to no avail. Do I need X binaries compiled for 3.0? I still have mine from 2.2.2
>How-To-Repeat:
Like shown above, I startx and open some xterms, run w, and only one of me show up and a user called ttyp3.
>Fix:
Install xfree86 binaries for 3.0? Or is there a real problem somewhere else?
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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