[ubuntu-za] Spontaneous Logout in 14.04

[Wesley Werner]

Hi Robin.

What if the X-Server is crashing forcing the logout? I see online that laptop has an AMD graphics card. Check the xorg log for errors (especially right after the next time this happens).

http://askubuntu.com/a/26526

Kind regards
Wes

On 4 July 2015 11:36:47 SAST, Robin Bownes <robin at bownes.co.za> wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I hope that someone can help. I've been using 14.04 (64bit) on my Dell 
>Inspiron 7520 laptop for quite some time now, and all has been well. 
>However, relatively recently - the past few weeks - the system 
>spontaneously, and seemingly randomly logs me out. This has happened 
>while doing several different things, so I've not been able to tie it
>to 
>a specific activity.
>
>I've tried Googling for an answer, but haven't come up with anything 
>other than a few other people who also cannot find solutions for
>similar 
>problems. (doesn't seem to be a direct hardware link)
>
>Somewhere along the line, I was advised to run "dmesg| tail", which 
>produced the following output, including the warning and advisory shown
>
>in red, below.
>
>Any help appreciated. Please use single syllable words and short 
>sentences. I'm not an expert. Thanks.
>
>Robin
>
>
>/robin at robinthedell:~$ dmesg| tail//
>//[129224.979867] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - 
>driver resynced.//
>//[129228.982874] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0
>lost 
>sync at byte 6//
>//[129229.006188] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - 
>driver resynced.//
>//[129524.822699] ACPI Warning: 0x0000000000004040-0x000000000000405f 
>SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 
>(20131115/utaddress-251)
>[129524.822705] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, 
>you should use it instead of the native driver//
>//[129524.826943] i2c /dev entries driver//
>//[129534.659631] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus dpc] timed out, falling back 
>to bit banging on pin 4//
>//[129541.739583] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus dpd] timed out, falling back 
>to bit banging on pin 6//
>//[129747.091667] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0
>lost 
>sync at byte 6//
>//[129747.112956] psmouse serio1: Touchpad at isa0060/serio1/input0 - 
>driver resynced./
>
>
>
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