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On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: |
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> Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up |
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> and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly |
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> anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly |
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> aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, |
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> everthing seems to work as expected. Can anybody here tell me where to |
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> look for the source of this problem ? |
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> Thanks, Matthias |
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I am running into a similar problem recently. I found out that sometimes, after |
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updating 'system', init would restart. During an recent upgrade, after init |
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restarts, the users that were logged-in at that time become "ghosts" of some sort. |
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'w' would show the correct number of people logged in, but some other commands |
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won't. It might have something to do with the fact that wtmp is not registering the |
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logouts from thost users. If I issue 'last | head' i would see something to that |
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effect. |
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I am wondering perhaps removing /var/log/wtmp would solve the issue (you might also |
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want to touch /var/log/wtmp afterwards). It might require a rebooting (which I haven't |
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gotten around to doing). |
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Best, |
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