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

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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Hi Mark,

On Fri, Aug 08, 2025 at 10:56:34PM +0100, Andrew Bower wrote:
> Here is a patch that restores utmp writing to uses of login(1), which
> fixes the reporting of virtual console sessions in 'w' on Devuan.
> 
> https://git.devuan.org/abower/util-linux/pulls/1

Sorry, I'm not familiar with gitea and ended up raising the PR on my
own fork! Here's a proper one:

https://git.devuan.org/devuan/util-linux/pulls/1

I am not cognisant of the workflow for contributing to Devuan packages
so let me know if there's anything else I can do to help!

Thanks,

Andrew

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

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