Package: procps
Version: 2:4.0.4-9+b2
Severity: minor
In the output of "w -t", for most X terminals (such as xterm, rxvt,
mlterm, sakura), the time in the "LOGIN@" column seems to be the
start time of the login session ("loginctl session-status self",
or id given by /proc/self/sessionid) instead of the time when the
terminal was started. The login session is
3 - vinc17 (1000)
Since: Sat 2026-05-02 04:25:02 CEST; 4 days ago
State: active
Leader: 2197 (lightdm)
Seat: seat0; vc7
Display: :0
Remote: no
Service: lightdm
Type: x11
Class: user
Desktop: lightdm-xsession
Idle: no
Unit: session-3.scope
[various processes, including these terminals]
There is no such issue with GNOME Terminal, but it does not belong
to any login session: "loginctl session-status self" outputs
Failed to get path for session 'self': Caller does not belong to
any known session.
and "loginctl session-status $(cat /proc/self/sessionid)" just gives
4 - vinc17 (1000)
Since: Sat 2026-05-02 04:25:02 CEST; 4 days ago
State: active
Leader: 2372 (systemd)
Remote: no
Service: systemd-user
Type: unspecified
Class: manager
Idle: no
without any unit and processes (and no seat, no display).
So it seems that you should not rely on systemd-logind information.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500,
'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'proposed-updates-debug'),
(500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.7.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.69
ii libc6 2.42-15
ii libncursesw6 6.6+20251231-1
ii libproc2-0 2:4.0.4-9+b2
ii libsystemd0 260.1-1
ii libtinfo6 6.6+20251231-1
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii linux-sysctl-defaults 4.15
ii psmisc 23.7-2
procps suggests no packages.
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