Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: vte (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to vte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/864609 Title: libvte9 fails to record utmp/login entries Status in “vte” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “vte” package in Debian: New Bug description: When using xfce4-terminal (0.4.8-1) on freshly installed Xubuntu 11.10 beta2 x86_64 no utmp entries are being recorded. On the same machine login, sshd, screen, xterm and gnome-terminal all record utmp entries successfully. This is an example output of "w" and "who" run on a machine with several xfce4-terminals open: snabb@oil:~$ w 19:47:37 up 2:32, 0 users, load average: 0.52, 2.00, 2.81 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT snabb@oil:~$ who am i snabb@oil:~$ who -a system boot 2011-10-02 17:15 run-level 2 2011-10-02 17:15 LOGIN tty4 2011-10-02 17:15 1255 id=4 LOGIN tty5 2011-10-02 17:15 1259 id=5 LOGIN tty2 2011-10-02 17:15 1266 id=2 LOGIN tty3 2011-10-02 17:15 1268 id=3 LOGIN tty6 2011-10-02 17:15 1274 id=6 LOGIN tty1 2011-10-02 17:15 2198 id=1 snabb@oil:~$ This is an example output when xterm is being used (with one window open). It can be seen that xterm records utmp entries successfully: snabb@oil:~$ w 19:49:47 up 2:34, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 1.38, 2.48 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT snabb pts/14 :0.0 19:49 0.00s 0.33s 0.01s w snabb@oil:~$ who am i snabb pts/14 2011-10-02 19:49 (:0.0) snabb@oil:~$ who -a system boot 2011-10-02 17:15 run-level 2 2011-10-02 17:15 LOGIN tty4 2011-10-02 17:15 1255 id=4 LOGIN tty5 2011-10-02 17:15 1259 id=5 LOGIN tty2 2011-10-02 17:15 1266 id=2 LOGIN tty3 2011-10-02 17:15 1268 id=3 LOGIN tty6 2011-10-02 17:15 1274 id=6 LOGIN tty1 2011-10-02 17:15 2198 id=1 snabb + pts/14 2011-10-02 19:49 . 10462 (:0.0) snabb@oil:~$ Some additional observations: - I am surprised that gnome-terminal does NOT exhibit this problem. I thought that both xfce4-terminal and gnome-terminal just use libvte routines for utmp handling. - utmp was recently moved to /run/utmp. Maybe this is related? I will add additional details to this report in case I notice something useful. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: xfce4-terminal 0.4.8-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Oct 2 19:42:57 2011 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110920.2) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xfce4-terminal UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vte/+bug/864609/+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