Package: libutempter0 Version: 1.1.6-4 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
Hi there, I've been looking at trying to use libutempter0 to cope with the fact that since stretch, gnome-terminal no longer even touches utmp. This has been a little bumpier than anticipated, as utempter_add_record returns without error even though it fails. This appears to be down to the helper program, /usr/lib/../utempter, failing, and add_record then ignoring that fail. If you run utempter manually you get a failure exit status when trying to add (which utempter_add_record then ignores). The problem seems to be utempter.c's use of ptsname() to get the device name: this call fails. On advice from Christian Persch on the gnome-terminal team I tried replacing this call with ttyname(): utempter seems to behave correctly after making this change, and indeed my workaround for gnome-terminal then seems to work. So it'd be great to see a patch to this to replace the ptsname(STDIN_FILENO) call in utempter.c with a call to ttyname(STDIN_FILENO). Might also be worth patching the utempter library functions so that they fail if execution of utempter fails. Regards, Conrad -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libutempter0 depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1 libutempter0 recommends no packages. libutempter0 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
