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Re: Is it gdm3 that is logging me out?



On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 15:34:22 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >On 14/07/10 17:25, Bob Proulx wrote:
> >>Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >>>Do you see signs of an X server restart or
> >>>anything else that looks suspicious in /var/log/Xorg.0.log or
> >>>/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old or /var/log/syslog?
> >>
> >>See also the ~/.xsesssion-errors file.

[...]

> It has happened again whilst I was having lunch today.  System had
> been idle for about 4 hours and when I came back to it I had been
> logged out.  Only 15 minutes ago (so it had worked perfectly up
> until then) it created an /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old file with ...
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Failed to submit batchbuffer: Input/output error

That is a problem with the video driver; your GPU is choking on a set of
instructions that it is supposed to execute. Which video chipset do you
use, which version of the X server and which kernel? (An Intel 845
series chipset with Sid's Xorg and kernel, maybe?)

-- 
Regards,            |
          Florian   |


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