What just happened?

[Steve Juranich <sjuranic@ssli-mail.ee.washington.edu>]

I was catching up on my Dilbert funnies when all of a sudden my GNOME 
session died, and X restarted.  I didn't get any error messages, but I 
found these in /var/log/syslog.

Jan 17 23:55:13 coffee gconfd (steve-6943): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
Jan 17 23:55:13 coffee gconfd (steve-6943): Exiting
Jan 17 23:55:13 coffee gdm[6559]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
Jan 17 23:55:33 coffee gconfd (steve-9011): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 9011 user 'steve'
Jan 17 23:55:33 coffee gconfd (steve-9011): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0
Jan 17 23:55:33 coffee gconfd (steve-9011): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/steve/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Jan 17 23:55:33 coffee gconfd (steve-9011): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2
Jan 17 23:55:39 coffee kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
Jan 17 23:55:40 coffee last message repeated 3 times
Jan 17 23:55:40 coffee kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,1)

So I guess the real offender is gconfd?? What would cause this kind of 
behavior?  A chkrootkit run 55 mins earlier shows a clean system.  This 
is brand new to me.  Any help?

Thanks.

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Stephen W. Juranich                         sjuranic@ee.washington.edu
Electrical Engineering         http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic
University of Washington            http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli