[SOLVED]The results of the who and w command is not correct.

remingtontonpon · 2012-02-19 08:47:34

Sorry, I am very poor in english.

I'm logging into kde session from kdm starting through /etc/inittab.
I opened two terminals and user2 logged into tty1(ctrl+alt+F1 and log in)

in debian , it returns like this

$ w
 17:41:31 up 12 min,  4 users,  load average: 0.27, 0.14, 0.04
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
user2      tty1                      17:41   16.00s  0.19s  0.17s -bash
me      pts/0    :0               17:37    4:14   0.00s  0.22s kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]      
me      pts/1    :0.0             17:37    3:44   0.16s  0.16s /bin/bash
me      pts/2    :0.0             17:37    0.00s  0.09s  0.00s w

$ who
user2      tty1         2012-02-19 17:41
me      pts/0        2012-02-19 17:37 (:0)
me      pts/1        2012-02-19 17:37 (:0.0)
me      pts/2        2012-02-19 17:37 (:0.0)

I think this is correct.
but in arch, it returns only two lines

$ w
 17:45:25 up  1:23,  2 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.10
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
me  :0        16:22   ?xdm?   4:13   0.00s /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkde
me  pts/0     16:22    1:22m  0.00s  0.00s /usr/bin/kwrited

$ who
me  :0           2012-02-19 16:22
me  pts/0        2012-02-19 16:22 (:0)

how can i get the correct return in arch?

Last edited by remingtontonpon (2012-02-20 07:23:16)

karol · 2012-02-19 09:44:59

Is it https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19392 ?

remingtontonpon · 2012-02-19 10:50:38

Thanks for reply.
Hmm...
I feel it is similar.
But in my case, there is no output of tty login,too.

I found my old archlinux in vbox shows

$ w
 22:45:50 up 4 min,  3 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.20, 0.12
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
user1      tty1      22:42    3:18   0.03s  0.00s -bash
me      :0        22:41   ?xdm?  41.09s  0.01s /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkd
me      pts/0     22:41    4:19   0.00s  0.00s /usr/bin/kwrited

And after update it

$ w
 23:25:28 up 0 min,  2 users,  load average: 0.60, 0.14, 0.05
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
me      :0        23:25   ?xdm?  14.81s  0.01s /bin/sh /usr/bin/startkd
me      pts/0     23:25    4.00s  0.00s  0.01s /usr/bin/kwrited

So, I think this issue has been caused by two bug.
One is that Karol pointed out.

Last edited by remingtontonpon (2012-02-19 14:25:10)

remingtontonpon · 2012-02-20 06:24:38

I suppose FS#19392 and upgrading shadow package (4.1.4.3-5 -> 4.1.5-3) cause this issue.
Reporting bug is too difficult for my poor English :-(

Vain · 2012-02-20 06:59:45

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659957

Looks like this was a mistake by the shadow maintainer. He says it’ll be fixed soon.

remingtontonpon · 2012-02-20 07:22:47

THank you guys!
I'll wait for the fix

.:B:. · 2012-02-20 13:06:45

Vain wrote:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659957
Looks like this was a mistake by the shadow maintainer. He says it’ll be fixed soon.

Do you mean the upstream shadow maintainer or the Arch one? Because that Arch bug linked to earlier on has its last comments in 2011...

Vain · 2012-02-20 13:24:32

I meant the upstream shadow maintainer. The Arch bug is something different (as far as I can tell), unrelated to the shadow package.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-02-19 08:47:34

[SOLVED]The results of the who and w command is not correct.

#2 2012-02-19 09:44:59

Re: [SOLVED]The results of the who and w command is not correct.

#3 2012-02-19 10:50:38

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#4 2012-02-20 06:24:38

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#5 2012-02-20 06:59:45

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