Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wolfgang Schweer] > Seems to be there. At least kdm 4.8.4-4 (sid) shows the same effect, > same config files, same workaround updates utmp. Right. I submitted BTS report #692730 to track the problem in kdm. Please update it with more details if you got any. > What about changing the shutdown-at

Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-08 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
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 w

Re: Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-08 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
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 actuall

Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Sending this thread back to BTS, to make sure the knowledge is recorded. [Wolfgang Schweer] > According to man kdm.options the option »use-sessreg« should enable > writing to utmp. That option is set by default in > /etc/kde4/kdm/kdm.options but doesn't seem to work by some reason. > Setting the s

Re: Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-08 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 05:52:03AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > I tried to get the built-in utmp registration working, while your > approach just disable it and use sessreg instead. Any idea why the > built-in registration do not work for "all Debian Edu Squeeze > machines"? It seem

Re: Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wolfgang Schweer] > IMO the reason is something else. By default sessreg seems to be > disabled in kdmrc. So all Debian Edu Squeeze machines using kdm seem > to be affected. > > Changing /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc (ditto in chroot) makes it work. Right, good with an alternative solution. I tried to ge

Re: Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-07 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 11:06:03AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > A customer reported that shutdown-at-night on diskless workstations > running XFCE turn off machines even if there is a user logged in. The > cause is that the logged in user is not registered in utmp, causing > 'who' to not

Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: debian-edu-config Version: 1.453 Severity: important A customer reported that shutdown-at-night on diskless workstations running XFCE turn off machines even if there is a user logged in. The cause is that the logged in user is not registered in utmp, causing 'who' to not show any logged