Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

[Istvan Gabor]

2013. március 19. 17:03 napon Ruben de Groot <mail25 at bzerk.org> írta:

> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Istvan Gabor typed:
> > Hello:
> > 
> > I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers.
> > w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them
> > (either for root or a regular user).
> > 
> > The output of w is:
> > 
> > root@:/root # w
> >  4:56PM  up 10 mins, 0 users, load averages: 0.18, 0.26, 0.20
> > USER       TTY      FROM                      LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> > root@:/root #
> > 
> > And the output of who:
> > 
> > root@:/root # who
> > root@:/root #
> > 
> > Why is this and how can I fix it?
> 
> This can happen if your kernel and world are out of sync.

1. How could I check this?

2. I found that users are reported if they are logged in on terminal session or through ssh.
User who is logged in through KDM3 into KDE3 session is not shown.
Does this change the above diagnosis? Can it be something else, maybe?

Thanks,

Istvan