Bug 43916
| Summary: | Logging in and out of X/KDE leaves ghost logins | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <wjbell> |
| Component: | kdebase | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | bugzilla.mtv, ksmith, naqvik, rpeters |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-06-18 10:59:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2001-06-08 01:31:02 UTC
Not sure if it's the util-linux package that has the problem, that was just my best guess. Exact Steps to Reproduce: 1. From a clean boot log into the console. (type 'who' to see how many are logged in) 2. Start XFree86 with startx and open an xterm. (mine's set to use KDE by default) 3. Exit XFree86 back to the console. (type 'who' again to check users) 4. Note that typing 'w' shows the correct users all the time. I see exactly the same error. Who and Last have incorrect information. Using w gives the correct information. A reboot clears the problem. I am also using KDE. I do not believe I saw this error when I installed and used Gnome. *** Bug 36990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I am having a similar problem. When I log in to a freshly booted computer, it shows an additional user to the standard :0 and pts that I am currently on. If I check the processes, I find that the only process associated with that terminal is /bin/cat with no arguments. (So cat will just sit there forever.) As with you, if I just logout, I have a "ghost" login that remains until reboot. I have found that if I "killall cat" prior to logout, I don't get the ghost logins. If this is not done prior to logout, then the cat process goes away, but the login remains. I haven't found what is starting cat yet though. Because this doesn't happen when using Gnome, I'm pretty sure this might have been a KDE problem - reassigning. It may be associated with kwrited. At least on my system, when I took kwrited.desktop out of the shared autostart folder the problem went away on both my desktop and laptop. There is a similar (the same?) bug regarding kwrited (later assigned to konsole) recorded in the kde bug list. It's bug #19649. It's marked there as 'closed'. Don't know if it has something to do with this. I don't think kwrited has anything to do with it. I took krited.desktop out of the shared autostart folder and it didn't do anything. I *might* have reduced the login count by one but the problem still leaves ghost logins. it's fixed in current release |