Re: finger return "No one logged on." and I am logged...... (fwd)
Anybody can report my same problem?
Andrea Arcangeli
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:22:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <arcangeli@mbox.queen.it>
To: David Fries <dfries@mail.win.org>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: finger return "No one logged on." and I am logged......
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, David Fries wrote:
>
>>Are you logged in at console or with an rxvt in X? I don't have a
>>problem with logging in the console, but it doesn't show up if I'm in
>>a rxvt.
>
>I logged in the console, but w works also if I am logged in xterm:
>
>arca:~$ w
> 12:03pm up 5 min, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.02
>USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
>andrea ttyp0 11:59am 0:22 0:00 0:00 -bash
>andrea ttyp1 12:00pm 2:09 0:00 0:00 -bash
>andrea ttyp2 12:01pm 0:04 0:00 0:00 pine
>andrea ttyp3 12:02pm 0:00 0:00 0:00 w
>arca:~$ last |head -5
>andrea ttyp3 :0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:02 still logged in
>andrea ttyp2 :0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:01 still logged in
>andrea ttyp1 :0.0 Thu Aug 14 12:00 still logged in
>andrea ttyp0 :0.0 Thu Aug 14 11:59 still logged in
>reboot system boot Thu Aug 14 11:58
>arca:~$ finger
>No one logged on.
>
>I want to know if is a finger problem or is caused by something other.
>
I am sure the problem is caused by login.
arca:~# >/var/run/utmp
arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
utmp begins Thu Aug 14 16:16:46 1997
arca:~# login
arca login: root
Password:
Linux arca 2.1.49 #2 Tue Aug 12 21:29:09 CEST 1997 i586 unknown
Last login: Thu Aug 14 16:03:58 on tty1.
No mail.
arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
~***|*** * **`q * **I Sun Apr 7 10:47 still logged in
*r *Y**8* `q Thu Jan 1 01:08 still logged in
*- *r `q Sat Jan 10 22:43 still logged in
***3 4*@ Thu Jan 1 01:00 - 19:12 (18:12)
utmp begins Thu Jan 1 01:00:00 1970
arca:~#
Can be a libc problem? xterm login shell return the same problem of login
from console.
arca:~# ldd /bin/login
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000)
arca:~# ldd /usr/bin/X11/xterm
libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000)
libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4005e000)
libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40070000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400b2000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400bb000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400d0000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400db000)
libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40179000)
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401b6000)
arca:~$ dpkg -l libc5
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii libc5 5.4.33-5 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time
libr
Any suggestions?
Andrea Arcangeli
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