Four of the machines I run are behind a KVM switch, and two of those have no DVD drive -- nor have I managed to get either to boot from an external USB DVD-drive. So I used a live CD to install F7 on those two, and then did a series of scp commands, chown commands, etc. (detailed in a post here by me a few days ago) to tar up my home directory on my main machine (which is still running FC6), copy the tarball to the DVD-less ones (and also btw to one that I upgraded with a DVD), and untar it, etc., there. Now I find that at least one machine is spontaneously rebooting! (I suspect at least two are, but have only confirmed one so far.) I boot up and log into that machine, and do something useful -- like bring up a browser with a bunch of weather tabs; KVM to another; do things there for a while; and KVM back, expecting to find all the tabs opened and loaded, ready to reload. Instead I confront a login screen. When I do log in, the machine takes its whole usual nine yards of time bringing up my panels, workspaces, etc. And the browser I had opened is not launched. I have also made sure that the screensaver does *not* lock my screen -- I have no need of that feature, and therefore find it a mere superfluous irritation. (No one else ever touches any machine of mine.) So I'm pretty sure the problem (in at least the case where a problem is confirmed) is actual full rebooting, not just a lock nor a logout. No machine, all the way back to RH7, has ever done such a thing, iirc. It is more than an irritation, since I often leave several tabs open on a browser for days or weeks on end, including browsers that do not autosave sessions. Why is it happening? How do I make it stop?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck, Double Retiree, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.
