Package: procps
Version: 2:4.0.4-8
Followup-For: Bug #1068904
X-Debbugs-Cc: alexandre.ferri...@orange.com
Dear Maintainer,
I do confirm "w" is still broken in a way that is related to systemd, though
not exactly in the same way as initially mentioned here.
I am on a fully upgraded trixie, with procps 2:4.0.4-8.
Specifically, on this machine I am NOT using systemd, but sysvinit.
In such a setup, "w" has been working okay for decades, up to and including
Bookworm-backports.
But here in trixie:
14:00:40 up 19:48, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.98
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
w: error getting sessions: Operation not permitted
And strace shows that this error is the result of the absence of
/run/systemd/system
faccessat2(AT_FDCWD, "/run/systemd/system/", F_OK, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) =
-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
write(2, "w: ", 3) = 3
write(2, "error getting sessions", 22) = 22
As a consequence, "w" now is unusable on non-systemd hosts.
Thanks in advance for considering this,
Best regards,
-Alex
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.12.32-amd64 (SMP w/36 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.68
ii libc6 2.41-8
ii libncursesw6 6.5+20250216-2
ii libproc2-0 2:4.0.4-8
ii libsystemd0 257.6-1
ii libtinfo6 6.5+20250216-2
Versions of packages procps recommends:
pn linux-sysctl-defaults <none>
ii psmisc 23.7-2
procps suggests no packages.
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