Anybody can report my same problem?

Andrea Arcangeli

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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 16:22:17 +0200 (CEST)
From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: finger return "No one logged on." and I am logged......

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, David Fries wrote:
>
>>Are you logged in at console or with an rxvt in X?  I don't have a
>>problem with logging in the console, but it doesn't show up if I'm in
>>a rxvt.
>
>I logged in the console, but w works also if I am logged in xterm:
>
>arca:~$ w
> 12:03pm  up 5 min,  4 users,  load average: 0.04, 0.07, 0.02
>USER      TTY    LOGIN@  IDLE   JCPU   PCPU  WHAT
>andrea   ttyp0  11:59am   0:22   0:00   0:00 -bash
>andrea   ttyp1  12:00pm   2:09   0:00   0:00 -bash
>andrea   ttyp2  12:01pm   0:04   0:00   0:00 pine
>andrea   ttyp3  12:02pm   0:00   0:00   0:00 w
>arca:~$ last |head -5
>andrea   ttyp3        :0.0             Thu Aug 14 12:02   still logged in
>andrea   ttyp2        :0.0             Thu Aug 14 12:01   still logged in
>andrea   ttyp1        :0.0             Thu Aug 14 12:00   still logged in
>andrea   ttyp0        :0.0             Thu Aug 14 11:59   still logged in
>reboot   system boot                   Thu Aug 14 11:58  
>arca:~$ finger
>No one logged on.
>
>I want to know if is a finger problem or is caused by something other.
>

I am sure the problem is caused by login.

arca:~# >/var/run/utmp
arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp

utmp begins Thu Aug 14 16:16:46 1997
arca:~# login

arca login: root
Password:
Linux arca 2.1.49 #2 Tue Aug 12 21:29:09 CEST 1997 i586 unknown
Last login: Thu Aug 14 16:03:58 on tty1.
No mail.
arca:~# last -f /var/run/utmp
~***|*** * **`q       * **I            Sun Apr  7 10:47   still logged in
*r       *Y**8*       `q               Thu Jan  1 01:08   still logged in
*-       *r           `q               Sat Jan 10 22:43   still logged in
***3 4*@                               Thu Jan  1 01:00 - 19:12  (18:12)

utmp begins Thu Jan  1 01:00:00 1970
arca:~#

Can be a libc problem? xterm login shell return the same problem of login
from console.

arca:~# ldd /bin/login
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000b000)
arca:~# ldd /usr/bin/X11/xterm
        libXaw.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d/libXaw.so.6 (0x4000b000)
        libXmu.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6 (0x4005e000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40070000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x400b2000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x400bb000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x400d0000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x400db000)
        libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0 (0x40179000)
        libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x401b6000)

arca:~$ dpkg -l libc5
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  libc5           5.4.33-5       The Linux C library version 5 (run-time
libr

Any suggestions?

Andrea Arcangeli



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