Bug 160517

Summary: X pseudo-terminals are not registered in utmp and wtmp if parent tty session is closed
Product: Base System Reporter: Renato Tambellini <rtsanch>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Open ---    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 8.2-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Renato Tambellini 2011-09-06 15:30:01 UTC
The pseudo-terminals (pts) allocated by xterm, rxvt and possibly others X terminal emulators are not registered in the utmp and wtmp files if the session of tty that called the X session is closed. Consequently the pts sessions not appears in the list of sessions of commands last(1), who(1), w(1) and others that depends of utmp and wtmp entries to run properly.

Fix: 

unknown
How-To-Repeat: 1) Make a login in the system tty console eg: ttyv0
2) Run the command: startx & exit
3) Open a xterm or rxvt using the window manager
4) Do commands last, who or w and verify that this session not appear in the list.
Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 08:00:31 UTC
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Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

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