last output: sarantis pts/0 :0 Thu Jan 1 02:00 still logged in sarantis tty1 Thu Feb 17 16:58 still logged in reboot system boot 2.2.14-1.5.0 Thu Feb 17 16:58 (00:00) w output: 5:03pm up 5 min, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.16, 0.09 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT sarantis tty1 - 4:58pm 5:02 9.10s 0.02s sh sarantis pts/0 :0 1Jan70 0.00s 0.06s 0.02s w This is observed for every xterm. Using XF86_Mach64 whith kernel-2.2.14-1.5.0 (original 2.2.15-2.5.0 would not start X).
this was a gnome libs issue, fixed for next release.