Bug 9256

Summary: gnome-pty-helper doesn't set utmp info correctly
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Component: gnome-libsAssignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description Jeremy Katz 2000-02-09 02:58:45 UTC 
Okay, this could well be the wrong component... but it's as close as I can
figure out :)

The writes to utmp done by gnome-pty-helper when called by gnome-terminal
appear to be incorrect.  The login time seems to be set to the beginning of
the epoch rather than the current time.

Witness (additional indenting for clarity)

[root@testbox i386]# w
 10:05pm  up  1:49,  9 users,  load average: 1.13, 1.28, 1.23
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
katzj    pts/0    :0               31Dec69 20:04   0.34s  0.09s  screen
katzj    pts/1    :0               31Dec69  0.00s  1.16s   ?     -
katzj    pts/2    :0               31Dec69 52:52   4.62s  0.25s  vi w.c
katzj    pts/3    :0               31Dec69 48.00s 10.14s 10.01s  slogin
cosanost
katzj    pts/4    -                 9:15pm 20:04   0.81s  0.14s  rpm -ba
SPECS/k
katzj    pts/5    -                 9:15pm 21:00   0.09s  0.09s  /bin/bash
katzj    pts/6    -                 9:33pm 30:45   0.26s  0.21s  slogin
morpheus
katzj    pts/7    :0               31Dec69  2:28   0.41s   ?     -


ptys 4, 5, and 6 are from screen while the others are from gnome-terminal.
Xterm works properly.  And since gnome-terminal never directly writes utmp
itself, but has gnome-pty-helper do it, it looks like gnome-pty-helper is
the culprit
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2000-02-11 20:40:59 UTC 
This was a patch applied to fix a warning that messed up
the times utmp. Warning fixed properly in gnome-libs-1.0.55-8,
by fixing up configure problems.
Comment 2 Preston Brown 2000-02-17 15:49:59 UTC 
*** Bug 9483 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***