I can confirm Gerry's observations with precise-proposed: toz@xubi:~$ who toz tty7 2012-07-19 14:34
toz@xubi:~$ w 14:35:15 up 3 min, 1 user, load average: 6.23, 4.33, 1.80 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT toz tty7 14:34 3:22 0.98s 0.00s /bin/sh /etc/xd toz@xubi:~$ last | head -3 reboot system boot 3.2.0-26-generic Thu Jul 19 14:32 - 14:35 (00:03) toz tty1 Thu Jul 19 14:28 - down (00:02) toz tty1 Thu Jul 19 14:28 - 14:28 (00:00) And this after one successful login and logout. Will check the last entry with Quantal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/870297 Title: Lightdm logins not being logged in wtmp Status in Light Display Manager: Fix Released Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed Status in “lightdm” source package in Oneiric: Triaged Status in “lightdm” source package in Precise: Fix Committed Bug description: Impact: Systems using LightDM have no entries in the utmp record for logins, so tools like 'w' and 'who' do not show LightDM sessions. Testcase: 1. Start Ubuntu system 2. Log into session 3. Open gnome-terminal 4. Run 'who' command Expected result: You should see TWO entries (the first is from LightDM, the second is from gnome-terminal): <username> tty7 YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM <username> pts/0 YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (:0) Observed result: You see only one entry: <username> pts/0 YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM (:0) Regression potential: Bugs in utmp code cause cause issues logging in To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/870297/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
