[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#603315: Bug#603315: wrongly complains about user being logged in on userdel

[Nicolas François]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:59:56PM +0100, biebl at debian.org wrote:
> 
> today I tried to purge the gdm3 package, which in postrm tries to delete
> the "Debian-gdm" user it created on installation. This failed though, as
> userdel wrongly complained about the user being logged in:
> 
> pluto:~# lastlog -u Debian-gdm
> Username         Port     From             Latest
> Debian-gdm                                 **Never logged in**
> pluto:~# userdel Debian-gdm
> userdel: user Debian-gdm is currently logged in

Instead of using lastlog, can you try if Debian-gdm is still executing
processes?

(something like "ps U Debian-gdm")

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Nekral