On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:51 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:51:31AM +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: > > Recently i've got a power failure while one of my gentoo boxes was up > > and running. Since then, the users command seems not to work correctly > > anymore, as it claims for users to be logged in that almost certainly > > aren't and don't have a single process running. Besides of this issue, > > everthing seems to work as expected. Can anybody here tell me where to > > look for the source of this problem ? > > > > Thanks, Matthias > > > > I am running into a similar problem recently. I found out that sometimes, > after > updating 'system', init would restart. During an recent upgrade, after init > restarts, the users that were logged-in at that time become "ghosts" of some > sort. > 'w' would show the correct number of people logged in, but some other > commands > won't. It might have something to do with the fact that wtmp is not > registering the > logouts from thost users. If I issue 'last | head' i would see something to > that > effect. > > I am wondering perhaps removing /var/log/wtmp would solve the issue (you > might also > want to touch /var/log/wtmp afterwards). It might require a rebooting (which > I haven't > gotten around to doing).
Well, i tried that after booting into x86-2006.0-minimal. Unfortunatley, that didn't solve my issuses; I found out that my system behaves after the following pattern: login with user1: $ users user1 $ exit login with user2: $users user1 user2 $exit login with user3: $users user2 user3 Thus, the system seems to ignore logouts as long as there are not more then two additional logins. I've also did a reiserfschk while staying in the live-cd environment, but no corruptions where found ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
