kdelibs should have BuildRequires: utempter I do not know what was the chain of BuildRequires that lead to that, but in FC-4, %{_libdir}/libkdecore.so.4.2.0 requires libutempter.so.0, whereas it does not in FC-5. As a consequence, konsole no longer register itself to utmp or wtmp. If that BR: utempter is added, the configure script of kdelibs will automaticaly add utempter support.
it's now fixed in kdelibs-3_5_4-6_fc6. It will be included in next rawhide soon. Thanks for your report.
Uh, but utempter isn't *in* fc6 (anymore), see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/PackageStatus?#head-429e12c728f3cc48b33af904a3b608471742c522 "FC Packages dropped between release 5 and devel"
Great! :-S Anyway, I would have liked this bug be fixed in FC-5. What will be the solution, in FC-6, for konsole users to be registered in [uw]tmp?
> Anyway, I would have liked this bug be fixed in FC-5. It is (will be), in kdelibs-3.5.4-0.3.fc5 > What will be the solution, in FC-6... I just (basically) posed that question to fedora-devel.
OK, false alarm, FC-6 has libutempter, which replaces utempter.
Unfortunately this (not the BR, but the utmp issue) seems to be broken again in FC6, see bug 213369.