@DAP: "This re-clasification is a problem since the "checklogin.sh" script is not actually a part of mythtv. It is a user written script that exists and is maintained only on the mythtv wiki."
Yes, it is a problem. But -- although I agree with you that we should have something more robust to find who -- if anyone -- is logged in, this is *not* a problem with coreutils; at the point in time I reset the bug to mythtv I have no idea this was not part of the official mythtv distro (I do not use it). So, right now, and until something more tangible lands here. mythtv is still not a bad place. Alternatively, we could, I guess, open a task on Ubuntu itself and set it to WISHLIST. I do think we miss something to check for a *local* user logged in. 'who' (or 'w', it seems) do not do the trick, since it relies on UTMP. I think this would benefit *all* Linux distros. It sounds like Mario's suggestion is still a good one: write a wrapper over 'ck-list-sessions', or extend it, to provide the functionality you (we all, in fact) need. Unfortunately I do not have time to do that right now... sorry. May I suggest you to contact the MythTV community on that? Looking at your comment #13 -- LightDM will only be shown if there is no logged-in user (under LightDM itself). Note that you logged in on a pseudo-terminal (tty2). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mythbuntu Bug Team, which is subscribed to mythtv in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875817 Title: who -q no longer counts gui users Status in “mythtv” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The "checklogin.sh" script on this page: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup uses "who -q" to determine if a user is logged in to prevent MythTV from shutting down the computer when a user is using the computer. On 11.04 this worked fine. On 11.10, my system shuts down 10 minutes after booting unless I open a terminal window. On opening a terminal window and running "who -q" I get: $ who -q dpeale # users=1 I used to get "users=2". The gui user is not counted anymore. This is true of both Unity and Gnome GUIs The 'w' command also has the same bug (I've never been able to figure out what package that comes from). It also has another bug. If you use one of the ctl-alt-Fx screens, login, and then logout, it continues to count that screen as logged in. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: coreutils 8.5-1ubuntu6 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Oct 16 09:24:27 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: coreutils UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mythtv/+bug/875817/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mythbuntu-bugs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
