I confirm. Quantal, fully updated: toz@quantalU:~$ w 09:44:08 up 7 min, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 0.83, 0.41 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT toz tty7 09:42 6:50 11.24s 0.55s gnome-session - toz pts/2 :0 09:42 0.00s 0.44s 0.02s w
toz@quantalU:~$ who toz tty7 2012-07-17 09:42 toz pts/2 2012-07-17 09:42 (:0) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870297 Title: Lightdm logins not being logged in wtmp Status in Light Display Manager: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric: Triaged Status in “lightdm” source package in Precise: Triaged Bug description: Impact: Systems using LightDM have no entries in the utmp record for logins, so tools like 'w' and 'who' do not show LightDM sessions. Testcase: 1. Start Ubuntu system 2. Log into session 3. Open gnome-terminal 4. Run 'who' command Expected result: You should see TWO entries (the first is from LightDM, the second is from gnome-terminal): <username> tty7 YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM <username> pts/0 YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (:0) Observed result: You see only one entry: <username> pts/0 YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (:0) Regression potential: Bugs in utmp code cause cause issues logging in To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/870297/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp