gnome logs out after pause? [feisty]

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Matt Price wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 20:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> running feisty and updating regurlarly i've recently run into an odd
>> problem.  it seems that my gnome session logs out spontaneously every
>> time i step away from the computer for a few minutes.  i had been having
>> some difficulty with beryl and compiz and at first i thought this was
>> parto f that ongoing problem, but i find it persists even with all
>> compiz/beryl packages removed and that it also occurs even when i log in
>> to the 'failsafe gnome' session at the gdm prompt.  
> 
> no response for a while now, so not sure anyone's listening, but here's
> some more info from syslog.  i left the system alone for a while and it
> crashed/restarted a while:
> 
> 
>> Mar  9 11:48:07 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: child 678 crashed of signal 6
>> Mar  9 11:48:07 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children
>>
>> Mar  9 11:59:06 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: child 1948 crashed of signal 6
>> Mar  9 11:59:06 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children
>>
>> Mar  9 12:10:08 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: child 3228 crashed of signal 6
>> Mar  9 12:10:08 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children
>>
>> Mar  9 12:21:14 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: child 4506 crashed of signal 6
>> Mar  9 12:21:14 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children
>>
>> Mar  9 12:32:21 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: child 5819 crashed of signal 6
>> Mar  9 12:32:21 localhost gdm[5598]: gdm_cleanup_children: Slave crashed, killing its children
> 
> seems to be happening every 11 minutes or so.  
> 
> also found this in Xorg.0.log.old (but none of the other Xorg*log*
> files, oddly enough:
> 
>> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
>>
>> Backtrace:
>> 0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c5d81]
>> 1: [0xb7f60420]
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
> 
> any hints?  thanks,
> 
> matt
> 
> 

I think the general consensus would be that you are running pre-release 
software and would expect problems. Your best bet would be to search 
launchpad.net for similar issues. If you don't find any then you could 
report a bug, describe the problem, attach info such as you posted 
above, the output of lspci -vv and lspci -vvn, and logs from /var/log 
and see if others can reproduce it.