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[Bug 875817] Re: who -q no longer counts gui users

 

>From the documentation of ConsoleKit:
"

Defining the Problem

To be written.

"

The documentation then dives directly into implementation details.

I attempted to read the rest of the documentation, but with the problem
it is trying to solve undefined, it is not making any sense to me.

Also, from what I can gather it is an "opt in" system like utmp. What is
there to guarantee that every gui or login method for the computer will
use this? Isn't there a way to tell if a user is logged in without the
gui or cli itself being required to write to some log file or database?
The requirement to write to said log file or database is guaranteed to
be forgotten by some gui or cli at some point (as it seems is proven by
the fiasco of utmp), and forgetting to do this is not even considered a
bug.

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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)

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