The command who shows nothing

asked 2017-05-06 08:33:47 -0600

bixo
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Hi,

I call the command who and returns nothing, no matters how many terminals I have opened. This happen with terminals opened in the graphic interface. If I open a tty console (p.e. ctrl+alt+f2) and login, this login is showed by the who command. I've tested different terminals (xterm, eterm, gnome-terminal, terminator, urxvt) with the same results. I've checked the utmp and if the tty can write on it, I think the permissions are correct.

It seems that the pty or pts are not registering in the umtp. On other machine with other distro (CentOS) this works ok.

I installed f24 from the lxde live cd and I'm using fluxbox, but with other WM like lxde the behavior is the same.

What can be happening here? Any Ideas?

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You aren't the only one. I'm running F 25 with Xfce and have been noticing the same thing.

sideburns ( 2017-05-06 09:51:20 -0600 )edit

And wat is happening when you give the command: w ?

Jos ( 2017-05-08 13:37:38 -0600 )edit

It gives me this:

[bixo@rigel ~]$ w
 21:06:44 up 15:13,  0 users,  load average: 1.42, 1.07, 0.99
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
[bixo@rigel ~]$

Now opening a tty, it gives me this

[bixo@rigel ~]$ w
 21:09:44 up 15:16,  1 user,  load average: 0.63, 0.85, 0.91
USER     TTY        LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
bixo     tty2      21:09   21.00s  0.08s  0.08s -bash
[bixo@rigel ~]$

bixo ( 2017-05-08 20:12:14 -0600 )edit

Do you get output when using the command finger? (The finger displays information about the system users)

Jos ( 2017-05-10 03:11:04 -0600 )edit

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The combination lightdm and xfce does work.

villykruse ( 2017-08-18 10:47:45 -0600 )edit

Great. Is it Fedora 26? Since it seems that @sideburns has this problem in F25 too.

hedayat ( 2017-08-18 13:27:00 -0600 )edit

It depends on your display manager. Search Google for "lxdm utmp" gives as one of the hits:

https://forum.lxde.org/viewtopic.php?t=31792
"Is there a way to have lxdm update utmp?"

villykruse ( 2017-08-18 15:02:41 -0600 )edit

Oh nice. I thought lightdm was the default manager for lxde/xfce.

hedayat ( 2017-08-18 15:36:43 -0600 )edit

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