Devuan bug report logs - #900
procps: w does not query elogind for sessions

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Package: procps; Maintainer for procps is Devuan Dev <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for procps is src:procps.

Reported by: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>

Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:50:01 UTC

Severity: grave

Found in version 2:4.0.4-8devuan1

Fixed in version 2.41-5devuan2

Done: dak@devuan.org

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From: Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk>
To: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: bug#900: procps: w does not query elogind for sessions
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 11:38:20PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
> But it feels like we have lost some basic functionality expected by
> Linux users the way things are.

Assuming we don't have time to do anything about this, I wonder if it's
a candidate for release notes or known issues? Is there a WIP set of
release notes for Excalibur?

(P.S. Sorry about the red herring on insserv earlier on the Debian BTS!)

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