Re: Desktop sessions dying with time
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 11:55 am, Michael Jinks wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:32:01AM -0700, ben wrote:
> > 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?
>
> The latter; sorry of that wasn't clear. I'm certainly not sure it's an
> idle timeout issue. The users report that the logout only happens when
> a session has been left alone for several minutes, but of course the
> causes for that could be endless.
>
> > check /var/log/kern.log for process errors.
>
> Nothing obvious; I was playing with sound modules on that machine
> earlier and there's lots of traffic in that file from that, but nothing
> else that I can see. Certainly nothing dated before my sound module
> explorations started.
are you inadvertently running idled, by any chance? try 'ps aux | grep idled'
if so, kill it with update-rc.d, and see if they still get logged out.
ben
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