Bug 35098 – Non-Important: 'w' in livecd-2.6_11-29-2003.iso

• Status: RESOLVED LATER
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description ANTRat 2003-12-04 16:09:04 UTC]

'w' displays excessive idle times for vc/[3-4]
(12390 days) for example

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot livecd
2. wait for prompt
3. type w then hit enter

Actual Results:  
cdimage root # w
 17:00:43 up 15 min,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
root     vc/1      16:45    3.00s  0.32s  0.32s -bash
root     vc/2      16:45   12390days  0.03s  0.03s -bash
root     vc/3      16:45   12390days  0.02s  0.02s -bash
root     vc/4      16:45   12390days  0.03s  0.03s -bash
root     pts/0     17:00    0.00s  0.09s  0.02s w


Expected Results:  
something other than that many days

Running in VMware

[Comment 1 ANTRat 2003-12-04 16:11:40 UTC]

oops... I ment vc/[2-4] not vc/[3-4]

[Comment 2 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2004-01-20 15:48:12 UTC]

vmware and 2.6 dont quite get along, ive noticed many strange
thigns while testing the livecds, hopefully this will change
after 2.6 matures