[CentOS] w stopped working after upgrading procps
Johnny Hughes
mailing-lists at hughesjr.com
Thu Apr 6 20:44:23 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:40 +0100, Chris Croome wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu 06-Apr-2006 at 04:25:36PM -0400, Jim Perrin wrote:
> > On 4/6/06, Chris Croome <chris at webarchitects.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have just installed a lot of updates on a CentOS 4 box and w appears
> > > to have stopped working -- this machine has 3 or 4 people connected via
> > > ssh, yet this is all that is outputted:
> > >
> > > # w
> > > 20:46:32 up 301 days, 3:21, 0 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.04
> > > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
> > >
> > > "rpmverify procps" returns nothing so the package hasn't been messed
> > > with.
> > >
> > > I don't want to reboot the server -- does any have any suggestions what
> > > could be done to get w working again?
> >
> > What kernel are you running, and which version version of procps are
> > you running?
>
> # uname -r
> 2.6.9-5.0.5.ELsmp
>
> # rpm -qi procps
> Name : procps Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version : 3.2.3 Vendor: CentOS
> Release : 8.3 Build Date: Sun 01 Jan 2006 05:57:38 GMT
> Install Date: Thu 06 Apr 2006 17:12:16 BST Build Host: build-i386
>
> I did update a *lot* of packages today I don't know if this could have
> anything to do with it...
>
That looks like a centos Kernel ... try installing audit and audit-libs.
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