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

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Mon Mar 21 15:12:56 UTC 2011


Ah, great; I remember seeing a patch from you as well that added the
ability to do "utmp ${TTY#tty}" did that get submitted?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Petr Lautrbach <plautrba at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/21/2011 04:07 PM, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>>
>> What is the unmerged part, OOI? I thought I had taken all your
>> changes, but it seems not.
>>
>> Scott
>
> this email's [1] 3rd attachment [2]
>
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/upstart-devel/2011-January/001363.html
> [2]https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/upstart-devel/attachments/20110105/ab27f4e9/attachment-0002.ksh
>
> Petr
>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Petr Lautrbach<plautrba at redhat.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>> --
>>> Petr Lautrbach, Red Hat, Inc.
>>>
>
>
> --
> Petr Lautrbach, Red Hat, Inc.
>



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