Re: unexpected logout

Dj YB wrote:
On Wednesday November 11 2009 00:55:45 Ed Greshko wrote:

Tim wrote:

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 22:26 +0200, Dj YB wrote:

many times it happens to me that while working, suddenly the session
just end and I get the kde welcome screen.
I have tried to look for a way to understand what triggers this but
with no luck, I have no idea where to look, what file logs this kind
of events, how can I see what program/process caused the logout...?

Hint: ls /var/log/Xorg*

If it bombed out while you were idle, the usual suspect is a screen
saver (a buggy one, or one finding a bug in your graphics driver).

In addition, I had a power supply go wonky that ended up being the culprit.


well, i am pretty curtain my power supply is good, but say I want to be sure
as to what caused the logout, where can I see which process \ application
triggered it?
thanks


The point being made it that it is quite unlikely that a conventional,
controlled logout has occurred. Chances are good that the X server
crashed or gdm crashed. Those things that crash will not bring down the
system but they will get restarted and present you with a login screen.
This may lead you to conclude something logged you out.

Did you check the log as Tim suggested?

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