Re: etch laptop system logs me out during inactivity (X crash?)

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On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 02:39:34PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote:
I've seen this happening on my etch laptop more often recently (not
exactly sure when I first saw it, but it has probably been within the
last 3 months). I generally keep the system relatively up-to-date
(almost always within a couple weeks of current testing).

I typically leave my laptop on overnight, or just running while I'm
doing something else -- and during this time the laptop is basically
idle. After some time, I'll return to the laptop and find that it has
kicked me out of my gnome session to the gdm login prompt screen.

I see this in the messages file:

Dec 30 09:11:50 gish gconfd (xxxx-####): Received signal 15, shutting
down cleanly
Dec 30 09:11:50 gish gconfd (xxxx-####): Exiting

I've googled a bit and not found a real cause, solution, or workaround.
Some folks on the Ubuntu forums thought X was crashing and gconfd was
reacting to that. As I indicated, my etch system is pretty current, and
'X -version' reports version 7.1.1. I'm also running kernel 2.6.17.

Anyone else seeing this? Anyone found the problem?

Thanks,
Hi Rick,
There can be differnt causes: software, hardware...
what video driver are you using? If you use a 'safe' driver like vesa,
then it would point to a hardware issue vs using an 'unsafe' driver like
a close-source driver like 'nvidia'. You can also see if its X or not by
leaving X and going to the console then seeing if the laptop does
anything odd after a few hours. Some folks also have issues with screen
savers.
Cheers,
Kev
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