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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: aulast only displaying reboot pseudo-users
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:29:21 -0400
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On Monday, June 16, 2014 05:20:10 PM Eric Paris wrote:
> My guess is that userspace just throws away record where it doesn't find
> the auid= and ses= and you kernel happens to live in those couple of
> months were it had "new-ses" and "new-auid"

Was this patch sent to stable? The audit code tries to handle the old way and 
the new way:

https://fedorahosted.org/audit/browser/trunk/tools/aulast/aulast.c#L175

But I thought the patch went to stable to prevent breaking user space. This is 
only one issue. I am seeing duplicate and missing events between systemd, gdm, 
and lightdm.


> I'd call this a pretty clear userspace bug where it just completely
> drops records, even if it can't parse them...

That theory can be tested by using:

ausearch --start this-week --debug > /dev/null

Anything that gets tossed out will be reported to stderr.

-Steve