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gpg messes with /var/run/utmp?
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Yesterday, I had a uncommon behaviour when shutting down my computer. KDE told
me, that there is still a session active on VT6 and if I want to abort this
session. I switched to VT6 and I had a login prompt, so I this session already
has been closed.

Today, I tried to reproduce this problem by re-doing the tasks, I did on this
terminal and I found out, that gpg seems to modify /var/run/utmp in some way,
the session is still reported open even after I type in "exit". This only seems
to happen when importing new keys via "gpg --import".

To reproduce, you may just login to any VT as root. Now delete/move your
~/.gnupg and import a new key. At next, I verified some files against their
signature. If you now logout, then a entry for this VT still is kept in
/var/run/utmp for any reason.

I have gpg 1.4.9 on my system.

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mreimer added projects: gnupg, Bug Report.Nov 20 2009, 10:47 AM
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• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Nov 26 2009, 9:41 AM

What do you mean by VTn? Some kind of virtual terminal in KDE, a virtual
console of your OS? I don't known. It seems to be more KDE related than gpg.
You may want to check whether some process (e.g. a shell) still has ~/.gnupg as
its current working directory - which might explain the problems your VT
application has.

Does not look like a gpg bug.

• werner added a project: Not A Bug.Nov 26 2009, 9:41 AM
• werner added a project: Info Needed.Dec 3 2009, 10:02 AM
• werner closed this task as Resolved.May 12 2010, 11:40 AM
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