Hey, I noticed that XDM sessions are not registered with utmp, which, in cases, leads to w/who not showing any user logged in.
The problem ist with /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole, which explicitly disables utmp registration. Attached is a diff that changes this setting. What do you think? Regards Andre =================================================================== RCS file: GiveConsole,v retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.3 GiveConsole --- GiveConsole 2010/03/28 10:33:02 1.3 +++ GiveConsole 2012/07/03 19:05:50 @@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ # causing serious grief. # chown $USER /dev/console -/usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY -u none -x /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers $USER +/usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -l $DISPLAY -x /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers $USER
