[26741] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.22: w
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Mon Feb 13 16:48:24 2006
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
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On Feb 8, 2006, at 4:15 PM, Kevin W Chen wrote:
> The user ait is not currently in /etc/passwd, and is not the owner of
> any currently running processes.
The main problem here is that gnome-terminal usually leaves a
stale utmp entry behind at the end of a session, due to a race
condition. I have reported this to the upstream GNOME
maintainers, and submitted a local fix which will be deployed
in an upcoming patch release.
There is also a bug in w (it should ignore stale utmp entries),
caused by its reading uninitialized data when determining
whether the entry's pid is still valid. I sent a bug report and
patch to the upstream maintainers.
Thanks for reporting this.
Bob
