Red Hat General - system showing more users loggen in than there actually is

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system showing more users loggen in than there actually is

Rollo

2004-01-23, 7:07 pm

Is this a bug or what.

Problem :
i had two xterms up and one was running top showing 2 users which was fine.
At some point the other xterm crashed but the xterm running top still showed
2 users. i've done a w, who -d, finger and i couldn't find any reason why
the system still showed 2 users logged in. At that point only one user was
logged on.

Question:
Why is the system still showing 2 users when only one is loged in?

running Fedora Core 1 2.4.22-1.2138.nptlsmp

Now i don't want to hear that this is a fedora problem cuz i'm also running
FreeBSD and i can simulate the same problem. I think this is a kernel
problem.