At Mon, 31 May 2010 15:42:51 +0200, Agustin Martin wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:50:25PM -0500, Adam C. Emerson wrote: > > Package: wdm > > Version: 1.28-2.3 > > Severity: normal > > > > > > Due to the nonexistence of utmp on my newly installed system, the > > -u /var/log/utmp option to sessreg causes it to not reg sesses. > > Removing this option makes everything work perfectly. > > Looking at some bugs in this orphaned package. > > Not sure if is a typo, but is /var/run/utmp what is used, not /var/log/utmp. > Anyway, seems that in systems with /var/run/utmp there is still no log. See > followup to your bug report, > > http://bugs.debian.org/463598 > > I tried removing the '-u /var/run/utmp' part from Xstartup, but seems to > still not register sessions. Are wdm sesions registered at your site with > the change? > > I compared code in wdm and xdm Xstartups and they looked very similar, so I > guess this problem originates somewhere else. > > In the box where wdm is installed last time /var/log/wdm.log was updated was > long time ago, on November 2005 for sid. I wonder what happened at that > time. I think about something related to xfree86 -> xorg transition (last > xfree86 log in this sid box is from September 2005). > > Thanks for your feedback,
I've switched to using xdm now (it's working fine at my site.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org