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When using xfce4-terminal (0.4.8-1) on freshly installed Xubuntu 11.10
beta2 x86_64 no utmp entries are being recorded.

On the same machine login, sshd, screen, xterm and gnome-terminal all
record utmp entries successfully.

This is an example output of "w" and "who" run on a machine with several
xfce4-terminals open:

snabb@oil:~$ w
 19:47:37 up  2:32,  0 users,  load average: 0.52, 2.00, 2.81
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
snabb@oil:~$ who am i
snabb@oil:~$ who -a
           system boot  2011-10-02 17:15
           run-level 2  2011-10-02 17:15
LOGIN      tty4         2011-10-02 17:15              1255 id=4
LOGIN      tty5         2011-10-02 17:15              1259 id=5
LOGIN      tty2         2011-10-02 17:15              1266 id=2
LOGIN      tty3         2011-10-02 17:15              1268 id=3
LOGIN      tty6         2011-10-02 17:15              1274 id=6
LOGIN      tty1         2011-10-02 17:15              2198 id=1
snabb@oil:~$ 

This is an example output when xterm is being used (with one window
open). It can be seen that xterm records utmp entries successfully:

snabb@oil:~$ w
 19:49:47 up  2:34,  1 user,  load average: 0.32, 1.38, 2.48
USER     TTY      FROM              LOGIN@   IDLE   JCPU   PCPU WHAT
snabb    pts/14   :0.0             19:49    0.00s  0.33s  0.01s w
snabb@oil:~$ who am i
snabb    pts/14       2011-10-02 19:49 (:0.0)
snabb@oil:~$ who -a
           system boot  2011-10-02 17:15
           run-level 2  2011-10-02 17:15
LOGIN      tty4         2011-10-02 17:15              1255 id=4
LOGIN      tty5         2011-10-02 17:15              1259 id=5
LOGIN      tty2         2011-10-02 17:15              1266 id=2
LOGIN      tty3         2011-10-02 17:15              1268 id=3
LOGIN      tty6         2011-10-02 17:15              1274 id=6
LOGIN      tty1         2011-10-02 17:15              2198 id=1
snabb    + pts/14       2011-10-02 19:49   .         10462 (:0.0)
snabb@oil:~$ 

Some additional observations:

- I am surprised that gnome-terminal does NOT exhibit this problem. I
thought that both xfce4-terminal and gnome-terminal just use libvte
routines for utmp handling.

- utmp was recently moved to /run/utmp. Maybe this is related?

I will add additional details to this report in case I notice something
useful.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xfce4-terminal 0.4.8-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct  2 19:42:57 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110920.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xfce4-terminal
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: vte (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric
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xfce4-terminal fails to record utmp/login entries
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/864609
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