Ubuntu 20.04.3 desktop (Cinnamon) - SSH disconnects when user logs off the desktop!

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:20:28 +0100, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>hi,
>Am Samstag, dem 22.01.2022 um 18:23 +0100 schrieb Bo Berglund:
>> 
>> I tried it just now but I failed to even find where the power and
>> screensaver
>> settings are handled.
>> 
>
>either through the top-right menu in "Settings" or by clicking at the
>9-dot icon at the bottom left and typing in "Settings" which should
>give you the gear icon and take you to the same app ... 
>
>in that app there is an "Energy" or "Power" option in the menu on the
>left pane that gets you to the power settings ...

I already found the Power item and set it to the appropriate way (never etc).

And it changes nothing.

But now I have found thanks to a reporting utility I have installed into crontab
@boot that the system reboots every 6 minutes unless someone is logged in to the
desktop on the physical machine!

I have no idea why this is happening and I don't know how to find out either.
But it does not happen if I have logged on to any of tyhe two desktops on the
bare metal. PuTTY login via the network or VNC login to the GUI does not count
it seems like.
Every time it reboots I get about 1360-1400 lines of logging into syslog, which
cannot be filtered by grep eithar. :(

Very hard to find the reason, but it seems regular inasmuch as the reporting log
has an interval of 6:23 between invocations (the 23 seconds vary between 23 and
24 seconds)



-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden