w and who commands not working properly

[Chuck]

I'd like to run 'who' and 'w' to find out who's connected to my machines
at times but neither seem to work. w comes up blank and who shows the
first user logged into the system, twice. I've verified this on Dapper as
well as two Breezy installs though it works fine on Suse 9.2 and Solaris
10.

This happens even when I know for a fact I have 3 or 4 users logged in!

Does anyone know how to fix it?

[noshellswill]

On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:43:52 -0700, Chuck wrote:

> I'd like to run 'who' and 'w' to find out who's connected to my machines
> at times but neither seem to work. w comes up blank and who shows the
> first user logged into the system, twice. I've verified this on Dapper as
> well as two Breezy installs though it works fine on Suse 9.2 and Solaris
> 10.
>
> This happens even when I know for a fact I have 3 or 4 users logged in!
>
> Does anyone know how to fix it?

Chuck:

"w" working fine for me .......

rayh@Gigabytel:~$ w
23:20:35 up 2 min, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.26, 0.10
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
rayh :0 - 23:19 ?xdm? 10.34s 0.33s x-session-manag
rayh pts/0 :0.0 23:20 0.00s 0.00s 0.00s w
rayh@Gigabytel:~$

nss
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[Chuck]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:22:59 +0000, noshellswill wrote:
Chuck:

"w" working fine for me .......

rayh@Gigabytel:~$ w
23:20:35 up 2 min, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.26, 0.10
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
rayh :0 - 23:19 ?xdm? 10.34s 0.33s x-session-manag
rayh pts/0 :0.0 23:20 0.00s 0.00s 0.00s w
rayh@Gigabytel:~$

Well, now that's about what who lists even when 4 unique users are logged
on from different machines. Suse shows all four in either w or who, but on
all my Ubuntu boxes, w just prints the header and who shows two users even
if there are more.

Any chance you can run a w -V to check what the version is?

Thanks,
Chuck
p.s. Sorry if this sounds like some geeky attempt at the who's on first
joke. ;)

[noshellswill]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:32:12 -0700, Chuck wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:22:59 +0000, noshellswill wrote:
> Chuck:
>
> "w" working fine for me .......
>
> rayh@Gigabytel:~$ w
> 23:20:35 up 2 min, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.26, 0.10
> USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> rayh :0 - 23:19 ?xdm? 10.34s 0.33s x-session-manag
> rayh pts/0 :0.0 23:20 0.00s 0.00s 0.00s w
> rayh@Gigabytel:~$
>
> Well, now that's about what who lists even when 4 unique users are logged
> on from different machines. Suse shows all four in either w or who, but on
> all my Ubuntu boxes, w just prints the header and who shows two users even
> if there are more.
>
> Any chance you can run a w -V to check what the version is?
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck
> p.s. Sorry if this sounds like some geeky attempt at the who's on first
> joke. ;)

Chuck:

In response to < w -V > ... I am told:

" procps version 3.2.5 "

Last couple days Ubuntu has been autoinstalling bunches of
upgrades. have no idea what they might entail.

nss
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