Re: Desktop sessions dying with time
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 10:57 am, Michael Jinks wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I just set some users up with a new Woody desktop, and they're claiming
> that if a session is idle for too long, it gets logged out. They mostly
> use GNOME with Sawfish.
>
> This isn't a behavior I've seen before; my own desktop is Woody, and
> certainly runs for many days at a time without making me log back in.
> So I figure that either something is crashing and killing their desktop
> session, or else I somehow inadvertently enabled an idle-timeout feature
> in X or GNOME.
>
> Is there such a feature somewhere? I haven't been able to find anything
> but I've only looked through the user-level config tools (GNOME control
> panel, sawfish-ui), and nothing in my knowledge of XFree86 configuration
> touches on this sort of thing.
>
> I've known xscreensaver to crash a desktop session from time to time,
> but it wasn't installed.
>
are you sure that the session crash is related to idling, or is that
assumption based on the fact that, when it happened, the user wasn't there?
check /var/log/kern.log for process errors.
ben
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