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--- Begin Message ---
Package: procps
Version: 2:4.0.4-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
I was trying to read the DISPLAY value from the output of 'w' command but with
version 2:4.0.4-2 there is no value in the "FROM" column.
These are some examples of the actual output:
$ w
13:00:24 up 19 min, 1 user, load average: 0,16, 0,15, 0,19
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
tecnoseg tty2 - 12:40 19:42 44.43s 0.01s
/usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary
$ w -i
12:52:37 up 11 min, 1 user, load average: 0,10, 0,22, 0,25
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
tecnoseg tty2 - 12:40 11:55 32.15s 0.01s
/usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary
$ w -s
12:53:16 up 12 min, 1 user, load average: 0,20, 0,24, 0,25
USER TTY FROM IDLE WHAT
Errore di segmentazione [*]
[*] = italian for "Segmentation error"
Previous version of the command give this output:
$ w
13:02:45 up 1:18, 2 users, load average: 1,34, 0,92, 0,93
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
kiosk tty7 :0 11:45 1:18m 15:55 0.18s
/usr/bin/openbox --startup /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openbox-autostart OPENBOX
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2
ii libc6 2.37-12
ii libncursesw6 6.4+20230625-2
ii libproc2-0 2:4.0.4-2
ii libsystemd0 254.5-1
ii libtinfo6 6.4+20230625-2
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 23.6-1
procps suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/sysctl.conf changed:
kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3
-- no debconf information
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Package: procps
Version: 2:4.0.4-9
4.0.4-8 and 4.0.4-9 had fixes for w to stop it crashing on some sessions.
- Craig
--- End Message ---
