using the users command or using gkrellm monitoring I'm seeing extra user logins for every terminal process in a logged in xsessions (running kde-3.2.2 fluxbox or xcfe or gnome 2.6.0/1) has the handling of child processes changed? Also every logged in X user has two users associated with it .. for each login .. any idea why .. ? I'd expect to see just one user listed for the master login .. how to fix? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
man xterm, search for -ls, fix in .Xdefaults or on the command-line. This is a bug-reporting system, please take questions like this to either the forums or the appropriate mailing list.
My apologies, I came down too hard in my last comment. What I meant is something like this: The behavior you're describing is not a bug, but is expected behavior based on the configuration of your system. Please ask around in the forums or mailing lists prior to assuming you've found a bug. That would allow us to concentrate on fixing the things that are really bugs instead of answering questions. Thanks!
It effects two out of four of my systems which were fine before .. and yes I did search the forums and the bug reporting system and for some reason I got dropped off the mailing lists I was on .. The fact that the behaviour changed without notice concerns me .. also where do you set the global/system wide .Xdefaults I know .. question for else where .. i'm just a wee bit perturbed by the unexpected change Note: This also a non-X problem I'm seeing the same thing at the consoles login on a machine once and you're there as two users ..
my apologies .. second console login was traced to an orphaned process .. bonobo-activation still running as the user. My appologies again .. I still can't understand why the defaults have changed. There are no .Xdefault files in sight in any directories, and it effects all users. by the way I'm using xorg-x11 (on all 4 machines) not xfree and things may be different in that environment. However it was just fine until yesterday when coreutils was upgraded as well as kde, some gnome, some xfce but not flux box. which is why I suspected coreutils as the effect is for all of them. None of these should have touched the core X settings. but I'll keep fishing sorry to have bothered you.
Okay my fishing expedition was rather circular but here goes .. all programs in coreutils relying on utmp appear to have the same defect .. if a terminal program or other process dies then it leaves a relic in utmp with no regular logout this is visible in a 'last' command as follows (with some snips to remove extraneous data) last -50 hannah pts/194 Wed May 26 16:18 - 16:27 (00:08) hannah zwift.zapvil zwift.zapville.o Wed May 26 16:18 - 16:27 (00:08) nick pts/193 Wed May 26 16:18 - 16:26 (00:08) nick znark.zapvil znark.zapville.o Wed May 26 16:18 - 16:26 (00:08) snip .. derk pts/189 Wed May 26 15:58 - 16:21 (00:23) hannah pts/188 Wed May 26 15:50 gone - no logout hannah zwift.zapvil zwift.zapville.o Wed May 26 15:50 - 15:50 (00:00) derk pts/187 Wed May 26 15:42 - 16:22 (00:39) ..snip derk pts/180 Wed May 26 14:11 still logged in derk pts/179 Wed May 26 14:07 - 14:25 (00:18) derk pts/178 Wed May 26 14:07 still logged in derk :1 Wed May 26 14:07 still logged in derk pts/177 Wed May 26 14:06 - 14:07 (00:00) fez pts/176 Wed May 26 13:54 - 14:07 (00:12) ..snip chris pts/144 Tue May 25 21:06 - 21:43 (00:36) chris zwift.zapvil zwift.zapville.o Tue May 25 21:06 - 21:43 (00:37) derk pts/143 Tue May 25 21:05 - 21:21 (00:15) derk pts/142 Tue May 25 20:19 gone - no logout derk :1 Tue May 25 20:19 - 23:11 (02:52) these are the 'gone - no logout' entries some of these orphans show in the who command w1nd0w5 :0 May 25 16:33 derk :1 May 26 14:07 fez pts/18 May 18 14:06 chris pts/44 May 19 21:19 derk pts/109 May 24 18:44 derk pts/114 May 25 06:57 w1nd0w5 pts/133 May 25 16:33 derk pts/142 May 25 20:19 derk pts/178 May 26 14:07 derk pts/180 May 26 14:11 hannah pts/188 May 26 15:50 where as the command ls /dev/pts* 133 178 180 shows only 3 'real' pts terminals active where the users commnd gives .. when only two real users are logged in w1nd0w5 and derk the rest are relics .. bash-2.05b$ users chris derk derk derk derk derk derk fez hannah w1nd0w5 w1nd0w5 Somehow the parsing used in the who, users and other commands is less than reliable as dead terminal processes flagged by 'gone - no logout' should not show-up in the who or users listings even though they should show in 'last' as expected ..
opps forgot my utmp listing as well .. also could be adjusted as the relics show here too .. bash-2.05b$ utmp RUN_LVL 20019 /dev/~ runlevel LOGIN_PROCESS 11708 /dev/tty1 LOGIN LOGIN_PROCESS 11709 /dev/tty2 LOGIN LOGIN_PROCESS 11710 /dev/tty3 LOGIN LOGIN_PROCESS 11711 /dev/tty4 LOGIN LOGIN_PROCESS 11712 /dev/tty5 LOGIN LOGIN_PROCESS 11713 /dev/tty6 LOGIN USER_PROCESS 5697 /dev/:0 w1nd0w5 USER_PROCESS 8911 /dev/:1 derk USER_PROCESS 27180 /dev/pts/18 fez USER_PROCESS 28805 /dev/pts/44 chris USER_PROCESS 11371 /dev/pts/109 derk USER_PROCESS 20591 /dev/pts/114 derk USER_PROCESS 5773 /dev/pts/133 w1nd0w5 USER_PROCESS 12161 /dev/pts/142 derk USER_PROCESS 8991 /dev/pts/178 derk USER_PROCESS 9200 /dev/pts/180 derk USER_PROCESS 18429 /dev/pts/188 hannah
iirc, this could be an issue with older utempter ?
Looks like a dup to me. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49175 ***
