Devs, All,
Recently across several distros there have been issues with loginctl not
showing a TTY associated with a login. This has caused various issues with
processes that rely on the user TTY for one thing or another.
So I decided to test Arch on two backup servers, both current though today,
both boot to multi-user target. On one box TTY=pts/0 is associated with my
user login, on the other there is no TTY associated, e.g.
02:41 fenrir:~> loginctl show-session auto
Id=1
User=1000
Name=david
Timestamp=Sat 2024-08-31 02:37:24 CDT
TimestampMonotonic=164549181
VTNr=0
TTY=pts/0
^^^^^^^^^
Remote=yes
RemoteHost=192.168.6.104
Service=sshd
Scope=session-1.scope
Leader=776
Audit=1
Type=tty
Class=user
Active=yes
State=active
IdleHint=no
IdleSinceHint=1725090076000000
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=395959270
LockedHint=no
The other:
02:40 valhalla:~> loginctl show-session auto
Id=1
User=1000
Name=david
Timestamp=Sat 2024-08-31 02:26:09 CDT
TimestampMonotonic=32411169
VTNr=0
Remote=yes
RemoteHost=192.168.6.104
Service=sshd
Scope=session-1.scope
Leader=712
Audit=1
Type=tty
Class=user
Active=yes
State=active
IdleHint=no
IdleSinceHint=0
IdleSinceHintMonotonic=0
LockedHint=no
How is that possible and what to check? Seems freedesktop.org and provided
another mystery. Ideas?
--
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
