On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:31:42AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Thus the correct workaround for now in Squeeze seem to be to edit > /etc/kde4/kdm/kdm.options to comment out use-sessreg (just for > clarity), and edit /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc to set UseSessReg=true to get > utmp updating actually working. We could use cfengine for this to fix > new installations. Not quite sure how we should fix existing > installations. Anyone know if this problem is also there in Wheezy? Seems to be there. At least kdm 4.8.4-4 (sid) shows the same effect, same config files, same workaround updates utmp.
What about changing the shutdown-at-night script to not use »who«, instead looking for shell like bash/dash or session string to find logins? Would that be a way for existing installations? Could also solve the problem inside the chroot by a simple package update. Wolfgang
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