+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #174352 +++ This problem exists in F10 with finger-0.17-36.fc9.x86_64. There is one difference: the original bug report seemed to complain about invocation for specific user: # finger <username> and this form seems to work fine for me. Invocation for a list of logged in users: # finger Shows a list where GECOS information is displayed incorrectly. See below: gklab-63-001:~> finger Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone tkepczyn Tomasz Kepczynski *:0 Mar 16 08:23 11073917 tkepczyn Tomasz Kepczynski pts/0 5:53 Mar 16 08:23 (:0) tkepczyn Tomasz Kepczynski *pts/1 Mar 16 08:23 (:0.0) tkepczyn Tomasz Kepczynski *pts/2 3 Mar 16 08:24 (:0.0) tkepczyn Tomasz Kepczynski *pts/3 5 Mar 16 08:24 (:0.0) tomek Tomasz K�M-^Ypczy�M-^Dski tty2 Mar 16 14:16 gklab-63-001:~> finger tomek Login: tomek Name: Tomasz Kępczyński Directory: /home/tomek Shell: /bin/bash On since pon mar 16 14:16 (CET) on tty2 12 seconds idle No mail. No Plan. I can also see that problem on CENTOS 5.2 which probably means RHEL 5.2 is affected.
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This bug still exists in Fedora 12.
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Created attachment 431142 [details] fixed bsd-finger-wide-char-support5.patch There was missing initialization of has_locale variable for list of logged users
finger-0.17-41.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/finger-0.17-41.fc13
finger-0.17-41.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/finger-0.17-41.fc12
finger-0.17-41.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update finger'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/finger-0.17-41.fc13
finger-0.17-41.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update finger'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/finger-0.17-41.fc12
Seems to work.
finger-0.17-41.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.