who and users no longer list locally logged in users in 12.04

Bug #1014537 reported by Jan Groenewald
12
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
coreutils (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

0 root@bangui:~#users
root
0 root@bangui:~#who
root pts/0 Jun 18 10:51 (tunisia.aims.ac.za)
0 root@bangui:~#ps auxw|grep session=ubuntu
1739 1886 0.0 0.2 395536 9692 ? Ssl 10:35 0:00 gnome-session --session=ubuntu
1739 1931 0.0 0.0 12484 324 ? Ss 10:35 0:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session --session=ubuntu
1739 1934 0.0 0.0 18420 488 ? S 10:35 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session --session=ubuntu
root 3222 0.0 0.0 6500 888 pts/0 S+ 10:51 0:00 grep --color=auto session=ubuntu
0 root@bangui:~#

Expected behaviour is something like:
0 root@capetown:~#users
mamana root root
0 root@capetown:~#who
root pts/0 Jun 13 07:49 (printserver.aims.ac.za)
mamana pts/1 Jun 17 13:44 (mamana-pc.local)
root pts/2 Jun 18 10:52 (tunisia.aims.ac.za)
0 root@capetown:~#

Note 'w' from the procps package also stopped listing locally logged
in users in 12.04.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in coreutils (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Jan Groenewald (jan-aims) wrote :

Additional information:
This is affecting me on kernel 3.2.0-25-generic but NOT on kernel 3.2.0-24-generic, where who/users works as expected:

0 root@nigeria:~#users
root wilsonleboho wilsonleboho
0 root@nigeria:~#who
wilsonleboho pts/0 Jun 18 09:39 (:0)
wilsonleboho pts/3 Jun 18 10:10 (:0)
root pts/2 Jun 18 11:09 (muizenberg.aims.ac.za)

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote :

Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. I have marked this bug as a duplicate of bug 870297.

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