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Bug 12213

Summary:	"group utmp does not exist - using root" in gnome-libs install
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Telsa Gwynne <hobbit>
Component:	gnome-libs	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1	CC:	ddumas, katzj
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Telsa Gwynne 2000-06-13 17:59:34 UTC

I have absolutely no idea how big, small or non a problem this is,
but from /tmp/install.log after an install of Winston: 

...
Installing gnome-libs.
group utmp does not exist - using root
...

No clue what this is about. Sorry.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2000-06-14 01:36:13 UTC

/usr/sbin/gnome-pty-helper is sgid utmp on a RH 6.2 install which gives it
permissions to write to the utmp file.  Not having a group utmp makes it
impossible for GNOME based programs which use gnome-pty-helper (eg
gnome-terminal) to update utmp information as to the user login.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-06-14 16:04:38 UTC

Basically, the package needs to prereq whichever package creates
the group (either utempter or initscripts, IIRC.)

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2000-06-22 04:08:55 UTC

Not seeing this error on beta2, although the package doesn't prereq utempter
(which does create the group).

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2000-07-14 04:21:29 UTC

also not seeing this in beta3, so closing the bug