Bug#1125682: xterm sessions do not appear in loginctl output

Thomas Dickey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.x
Message-ID <aYPrUBsrwK8OY5Ue__40603.9847688348$1770253292$gmane$org@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net>
On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 02:13:09PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2026-02-04 12:40:00 +0100, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > This is your assessment of things. It is still unknown if xterm 
> > needs any changes or not. I'll defer to the xterm author for this.
> 
> If xterm does not need any change, then what is the cause of the
> issue?

Basically, removing utmp breaks any user of libtempter.
(apt-cache says there are a few others than xterm).

So... I'll have to investigate and see if the advice in #1072235 was useful.

(utmp and wtmp have different purposes, and if it was only aimed at wtmp,
the advice was not useful).

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Thomas E. Dickey <[email protected]>
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