Bug#463598: /var/run/utmp exists, but wdm still doesn't register the session
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:26:18PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:37:37PM +0200, Agustin Martin wrote:
> > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:36:47PM +0300, Yury Bulka wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello! Let me firstly thank you for your work on this package and for reading this:)
> > > So here's what the report is about:
> > > I've also noticed that wdm doesn't register the session it starts to utmp, but in my case /var/run/utmp exists on my system.
> > > It's strange, because the "sessreg" command is in its place in file /etc/X11/wdm/Xstartup:
> > > ---
> > > # Insert a utmp entry for the session
> > > if grep -q ^use-sessreg /etc/X11/wdm/wdm.options; then
> > > exec sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY -u /var/run/utmp -x /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers $USER
> > > # NOTREACHED
> > > fi
> > > ---
> > > and the option "use-sessreg" is enabled in /etc/X11/wdm/wdm.options.
> > > I tried to install xdm and it does register the session with almost identical "sessreg" command (the only difference is the -x parameter which is set to "/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers" there)...
> >
> > I replaced wdm Xstartup with xdm Xstartup and s/xdm/wdm/g. No luck, it still
> > does not register session. I have verified that $DISPLAY and $USER values
> > just before the sessreg call are correct and so that the sessreg line is
> > processed if use-sessreg is enabled.
> >
> > I am curious, did it register session at some time?
> >
> > In the box where wdm is installed last time /var/log/wdm.log was updated was
> > long time ago, on November 2005 for sid. I wonder what happened at that time.
> > I think about something related to xfree86 -> xorg transition (last xfree86
> > log in this sid box is from September 2005).
>
> By the way, just noticed why "/var/log/wdm.log" was not updated. It was indeed
> the expected behavior.
>
> Somewhere around 1.27 (Seems to be 1.27-1, according to changelog, in reply
> to #242155), "wdm-config" was modified to have messages be sent to syslog
> as default, while previous default was "/var/log/wdm.log". And that
> happened in late 2004 amd hit me in 2005.
>
> I have checked my "/var/log/syslog" and it indeed contains wdm messages.
> If I modify "wdm-config" to not use syslog, messages are sent again to
> "/var/log/wdm.log".
>
> Adam, I am aware this bug is 3 years old and you no longer use wdm, but do
> you remember if when noticing the problem you checked "/var/log/wdm.log",
> or it was "/var/log/syslog"?
>
> Thanks for your feedback,
I'm sorry, I don't remember.
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