FC6 logs me out every 10 minutes

Ed Gurski ed at gurski.com
Sun Jan 14 14:43:29 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 09:04 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:


> 
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:02 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:50 +0000, Scott van Looy wrote:
> > > Today Dan Hensley did spake thusly:
> > > >>
> > > >> Any idea what's happening???
> > > >
> > > > Ok, as soon as I sent this I suspected the screensaver, and that is
> > > > exactly what it is.  When I try to change my screensaver in System |
> > > > Preferences, I get logged out as soon as the config panel shows up.  So
> > > > my next question is, where are the screensaver preferences stored, and
> > > > how can I change them manually?
> > > >
> > > > And of course my next question is, why is the stupid screensaver logging
> > > > me out?
> > > 
> > > Am guessing you're not actually being logged out (ie you don't see the 
> > > logout screen) but everything just goes black and then the login screen 
> > > appears? What graphics card do you use? Are you trying to run a 3d 
> > > screensaver? It would seem to me to be indicative of a broken OpenGL chunk 
> > > somewhere...
> > 
> > That's correct.  Everything goes black and the login screen appears
> > after a few seconds.
> > 
> > I think there was a glibc update yesterday, and that's probably what
> > broke it.  I've been using the same screensaver for weeks, and I have
> > made no other changes recently.
> > 
> > I have an NVidia 6600GT card, and I'm using a recent 3D driver from
> > NVidia.  Ironically, I have to use this driver because the x.org driver
> > will not display at 1680x1050.  That's the other issue I have had with
> > the FC6 upgrade.  It seems to insist on displaying 1280x1024, even when
> > 1680x1050 is the ONLY resolution in my config file.
> > 
> > Dan
> 
> Check the kernel log after a "log-out".
> You should see X.org/nVidia driver crash message.
> If I'm correct, I'd suggest you file a report in
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
> 

I have found the problem with the logout. If you are running the
screensaver, then do not use Kaleidoscope.  I ran through every
screensaver, and this was the only one that crashed and logged me out...

HTH.

Ed




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