Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wolfgang Schweer] > Seems to be there. At least kdm 4.8.4-4 (sid) shows the same effect, > same config files, same workaround updates utmp. Right. I submitted BTS report #692730 to track the problem in kdm. Please update it with more details if you got any. > What about changing the shutdown-at

Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-08 Thread Wolfgang Schweer
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 10:31:42AM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Thus the correct workaround for now in Squeeze seem to be to edit > /etc/kde4/kdm/kdm.options to comment out use-sessreg (just for > clarity), and edit /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc to set UseSessReg=true to get > utmp updating actually w

Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Sending this thread back to BTS, to make sure the knowledge is recorded. [Wolfgang Schweer] > According to man kdm.options the option »use-sessreg« should enable > writing to utmp. That option is set by default in > /etc/kde4/kdm/kdm.options but doesn't seem to work by some reason. > Setting the s

Bug#692539: debian-edu-config: Diskless workstations with XFCE do not register logged in users in utmp

2012-11-07 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
Package: debian-edu-config Version: 1.453 Severity: important A customer reported that shutdown-at-night on diskless workstations running XFCE turn off machines even if there is a user logged in. The cause is that the logged in user is not registered in utmp, causing 'who' to not show any logged