Public bug reported:
On Ubuntu 12.04 the utility 'who' fails to report the presence of a user
logged in using the Unity or Gnome fallback GUI.
For example, if I log in as "psz" to the 10.04 machine in use by "arz"
and I run 'who' in the ssh terminal I get something like this:
$ who
arz tty7 2012-06-13 11:05 (:0)
arz pts/0 2012-07-25 15:34 (:0.0)
arz pts/1 2012-07-25 10:43 (:0.0)
arz pts/2 2012-07-19 17:58 (:0.0)
psz pts/3 2012-07-25 19:20 (pszpc)
Where as if I remotely log in to the 12.04 box with another user logged
in, I get this:
$ who
psz pts/1 2012-07-25 19:21 (pszpc)
The same issue also applies to 'top' as it only reports one user logged
in (i.e. ignores the GUI user) and 'users' also fails to see the GUI
logged in user.
I expect the core utilities to tell me if there is a user USING the
computer, otherwise I could be tempted to reboot the machine remotely
after making changes, etc, which is going to make the logged-in user
very unhappy indeed!
System details:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
$ apt-cache policy coreutils
coreutils:
Installed: 8.13-3ubuntu3
Candidate: 8.13-3ubuntu3
Version table:
*** 8.13-3ubuntu3 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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'who' and 'users' failes to report the GUI user
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