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On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:32 +0100, Rick van Hattem wrote: |
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> On Monday 20 March 2006 05:02, Matthias Langer wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 04:51 +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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> > |
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> > Just for the case that this helps describing my problem: |
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> > |
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> > # users |
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> > mlangc mlangc |
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> > |
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> > [should be: rattan] |
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> > |
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> > # top |
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> > not a single process for mlangc |
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> > |
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> > # tail -n 400 /var/log/messages |
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> > |
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> > Mar 19 22:21:37 lgate886 login(pam_unix)[8674]: session opened for user |
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> > mlangc by (uid=0) |
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> > ... |
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> > ... |
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> > Mar 19 22:21:47 lgate886 (mlangc-8784): starting (version 2.12.1), pid |
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> > 8784 user 'mlangc' |
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> > ... |
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> > ... |
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> > Mar 20 00:02:45 lgate886 (mlangc-8784): Exiting |
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> > Mar 20 00:02:50 lgate886 login(pam_unix)[8674]: session closed for user |
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> > mlangc |
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> > Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 sshd[9620]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam |
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> > for rattan from 192.168.0.102 port 41237 ssh2 |
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> > Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 syslog-ng[5304]: STATS: dropped 0 |
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> > Mar 20 04:29:35 lgate886 sshd(pam_unix)[9626]: session opened for user |
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> > rattan by (uid=0) |
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> > Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su[9634]: Successful su for root by rattan |
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> > Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su[9634]: + pts/0 rattan:root |
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> > Mar 20 04:30:29 lgate886 su(pam_unix)[9634]: session opened for user |
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> > root by (uid=1002) |
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> Perhaps you could try booting in single user mode (or a livecd or something |
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> like that) and remove /var/log/utmp and /var/log/wtmp |
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> Those are the files that track who is logged on and who isn't, perhaps you can |
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> also delete/rename those while running but I'm not sure what results you'll |
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> get and I'm not gonna try on one of my boxes :P |
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Thanks, i tried to remove /var/log/wtmp [/var/log/utmp doesn't exist on |
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my box], but that did not help (see my other reply). |
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