Re: coreutils: 'who' behaves strangely

[Stefan Bellon <sbellon@sbellon.de>]

Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > Just calling 'who' does not display
> > anything at all.

> Your file /var/run/utmp may be locked.

Thanks a lot.

> Try this :
>     ps -f -p `fuser /var/run/utmp`
> It will show all the processes currently using the utmp file.

I'll remember that for the next time, just in case there is a "next
time". I'm still not sure what caused the problem but as I wanted to
update from 2.6.12 to 2.6.14 anyway, I did that and after the reboot
everything works as expected again.

> A few days ago, I had the same problem.
> The command above showed me a lot of old and frozen gnome-pty-helper.

Yes, I noticed those as well.

-- 
Stefan Bellon