Subject: bin/12130: w shows impossible idle times
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@marie.sub-etha.wtal.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/04/2001 04:17:23
>Number:         12130
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       w shows impossible idle times
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 04 04:20:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ignatios Souvatzis
>Release:        NetBSD-1-5-RELEASE
>Organization:
	
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD marie 1.5 NetBSD 1.5 (SHARK) #1: Sun Nov 19 14:33:05 PST 2000 matt@tiger.local:/u1/kobj/SHARK arm32


>Description:

w shows idle times which are bigger than the uptime. (The uptime is correct.)

marie is 105% w     
 1:11PM  up 13 days, 17:46, 2 users, load averages: 0.15, 0.11, 0.09
 USER TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
 root  p1 :0.0             26Jan01  68days -sh 
 is    p2 jocelyn.sub-etha  1:10PM  68days w 

>How-To-Repeat:

w

>Fix:

Not known. 

A hint might be that something like this happens also on SunOS 4.1.4 (or
older), sometimes, so it might be a very old bug (from 4.3BSD times).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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