Multiple users show in "w" and "uptime" when there is only one logged in..

[EcKstasy]

Hi, I've been having trouble from my Ubuntu (hardy heron) box for a few days now, When I check "uptime" and "who" it shows there is 5 users logged in when there is only 1.. here is the output I get.

 eckstasy@EU:~$ who
eckstasy pts/0        2008-11-19 01:01 (thedatabase.home)

and for uptime...

eckstasy@EU:~$ uptime
 01:02:47 up 16 days, 23:48,  5 users,  load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.00

Does anyone know what could be the cause of this?
thanks.

[EcKstasy]

Weird.. My phpsysinfo also shows there is only one user logged in also.

http://www.escriptirc.com/system/

[EcKstasy]

anyone?

[EcKstasy]

Nevermind.. I managed to fix my problem using:

# Reset /var/log/utmp settings on the fly:
/bin/rm -f /var/run/utmp

# Create a fresh utmp file:
touch /var/run/utmp
chown root:utmp /var/run/utmp
chmod 664 /var/run/utmp