Bug 75943

Summary:	utempter does not deregister a user when a login-shell terminal is closed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	dobz <abusenospam>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	abusenospam, dickey
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	115533, 115663
Bug Blocks:

Description dobz 2004-12-28 13:11:48 UTC

xorg-x11 depends on xterm, and xterm depends on utempter.

Personnaly, I find it very irritating to have the user count increase by 1 everytime I open a new terminal in my X session. All the more since it is not always decreased by 1 when the term is closed.

With some terms, this behaviour can be disabled (aterm etc.), but not with others (konsole, gnome-terminal...)

Since xterm builds and works perfectly fine without utempter, the dependency on utempter should be removed, or an utempter USE flag added.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-10 10:23:37 UTC

xterm-200 is headed into portage now, with utempter no longer its dependency.  Please test rigorously.

Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-10 10:47:45 UTC

sorry, I'm not going to remove it -- I've been talked back into my senses.

Comment 3 Thomas Dickey 2005-05-25 09:19:00 UTC

It would be nice to know what the bug is.
But xterm's utmp support can always be disabled.
That's the -ut option, and utmpInhibit resource.

Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-12-12 12:56:17 UTC

dobz: can you check with libutempter instead of utempter?

Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-02 08:23:42 UTC

closing, as I've made it depend specifically on libutempter instead of the virtual.