[CentOS] Re: w stopped working after upgrading procps

[Scott Silva]

Chris Croome spake the following on 4/6/2006 1:53 PM:
> Hi
> 
> On Thu 06-Apr-2006 at 03:40:11PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:18 +0100, Chris Croome 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?
>> We are tracking this issue as a bug.
>>
>> Basically ... it seems that for w to continue to work, you have to have
>> the latest version of opsnssh, audit and audit-libs installed.  With
>> those installed and a CentOS kernel, everything seems fine (Even older
>> CentOS kernels and those from CentOS Plus).
>>
>> Other external kernels (some fedora ... some kernel.org) seems to break
>> w.
>>
>> Here is the bug:
>>
>> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1245
>>
>> We won't be patching code to fix this unless it is fixed from upstream.
>> (This is one of the reasons I don't recommend building your own
>> kernels ... but that thread is probably better left dead :)
> 
> Ah, OK, I guess I should add to that bug report...
> 
> I'm running a CentOS kernel and have the latest opsnssh, audit and
> audit-libs as far as I'm aware.
> 
>   # rpm -qi openssh
>   Name        : openssh                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
>   Version     : 3.9p1                             Vendor: CentOS
>   Release     : 8.RHEL4.12                    Build Date: Wed 08 Mar 2006 14:13:09 GMT
>   Install Date: Fri 10 Mar 2006 21:01:09 GMT      Build Host: build-i386
>   
>   # rpm -qi audit
>   Name        : audit                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
>   Version     : 1.0.12                            Vendor: CentOS
>   Release     : 1.EL4                         Build Date: Sun 01 Jan 2006 19:22:39 GMT
>   Install Date: Fri 10 Mar 2006 20:58:27 GMT      Build Host: build-i386
> 
>   # rpm -qi audit-libs
>   Name        : audit-libs                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
>   Version     : 1.0.12                            Vendor: CentOS
>   Release     : 1.EL4                         Build Date: Sun 01 Jan 2006 19:22:39 GMT
>   Install Date: Fri 10 Mar 2006 20:58:23 GMT      Build Host: build-i386
> 
>   #rpm -qi kernel
>   Name        : kernel                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
>   Version     : 2.6.9                             Vendor: CentOS
>   Release     : 5.0.5.EL                      Build Date: Wed 20 Apr 2005 01:16:34 BST
>   Install Date: Wed 25 May 2005 19:23:52 BST      Build Host: guru.build.karan.org
> 
>   # uname -srvpi
>   Linux 2.6.9-5.0.5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Apr 20 00:16:40 BST 2005 i686 i386
> 
> Chris
> 
 uname -srvpi
 Linux 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Mar 9 06:23:23 GMT 2006 x86_64 x86_64


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