Re: coreutils: 'who' behaves strangely

From: Stefan Bellon (sbellon_at_sbellon.de)
Date: 11/26/05

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Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:28:47 +0100

    Vincent Rivière wrote:
    > > Just calling 'who' does not display
    > > anything at all.

    > Your file /var/run/utmp may be locked.

    Thanks a lot.

    > Try this :
    > ps -f -p `fuser /var/run/utmp`
    > It will show all the processes currently using the utmp file.

    I'll remember that for the next time, just in case there is a "next
    time". I'm still not sure what caused the problem but as I wanted to
    update from 2.6.12 to 2.6.14 anyway, I did that and after the reboot
    everything works as expected again.

    > A few days ago, I had the same problem.
    > The command above showed me a lot of old and frozen gnome-pty-helper.

    Yes, I noticed those as well. 

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Stefan Bellon
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