[Alexander Alemayhu] > Dear Maintainer, > > While logged in on a tjener I was logged out multiple times and was > told by Petter that killer killed me. He also mentioned the bug might > be related to a change in ps.
I investigated, and discovered that when the username was 'skolelinux', ps showed 'skolelin+' as the username, causing killer to fail to understand the processes in question belonged to a logged in user. Apparently procps changed the last few months to not print the uid for usernames not fitting in the reserved space for usernames, and instead truncate the username and adding a plus at the end. I found a fix with the help from #debian-devel, where I tell ps to always return uids by add 'n' to the command line. The fix is commited to git and uploaded to unstable. We need to ask the release managers to allow this fix into Jessie to avoid breaking Debian Edu completely. With this bug in place, no user with a "long" username can be logged in more than an hour. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
