Re: utmp not updated

From: Thomas Dickey (dickey_at_saltmine.radix.net)
Date: 11/16/05

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    Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:09:16 -0000
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    Vincent Rivière <riviere@iut-rodez.fr> wrote:

    > I have problems with the who command.
    > Sometimes (once a week ?), the list of users shown by the who command gets
    > frozen, and is no more updated as the users logs in/out.
    > If I look at the last modification time of the file /var/run/utmp, I can see
    > that it is no more upated.
    > If I reboot, the the who command works again, for one week, then freeze
    > again.
    > The problem may appear when a lot of users (>20) open a Gnome session at the
    > same time on X terminals.

    That sounds like one of the problems I worked around in xterm.
    If the update is not using all of the information, it will modify
    an obsolete entry in utmp.

    Perhaps you should report a bug for gnome-terminal. 

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