utmp handing (Was: [RFC][PATCH] Add support for oom_score_adj)

[Petr Lautrbach]

On 03/18/2011 11:09 PM, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Cc'ing Petr
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Marc - A. Dahlhaus<mad at wol.de>  wrote:
>> Am 17.03.2011 21:45, schrieb Scott James Remnant:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Marc - A. Dahlhaus<mad at wol.de>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> BTW is the override file stuff upstreamed into the 1.X branch already?
>>>>
>>> No. I wanted to release a stable 1.0 with no new features, James
>>> needed to get features in for Ubuntu natty - so for now Ubuntu is
>>> running a fork of Upstart (whichout all the bug fixes of 1.0 + 1.1,
>>> but with new features).
>>
>> while we are at it, i had some problems regarding utmp handling in 1.0 and
>> while running a gdb session and talking with plauterbach on irc he suggested
>> adding this patch: http://plautrba.fedorapeople.org/upstart-utmp.patch
>>
>> The patch fixed the utmp handling on my box which is running an LFS based
>> system with unpatched upstream versions of glibc-2.13, util-linux-2.19
>> (agetty) and shadow-4.1.4.3 (login).
>>
>> The problem was that upstart couldn't find the first opened utmp record on
>> logout from local ttys for each tty after a clean boot. The behavior was the
>> same even on a empty utmp file after a boot. SSH ttys where handled correctly
>> so a buggy glibc was ruled out in our tests.
>>
>> I didn't debugged it further after i found out that the patch mentioned above
>> fixed the bug for me.
>>
> Yeah, after reviewing some merges I think I managed not to get the
> entirety of those patches.
>
> Petr - what am I missing?
>

Really don't know.

 From my point of view, merged changes do work fine for me regardless on non-pushed part.
I will try to reproduce it with latest util-linux and clear upstart-1.1 sources without any fedora patches but
since I've already tried few things and everything's went as expected ...

Regards,

Petr
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Petr Lautrbach, Red Hat, Inc.