On Dec 7, 2007 2:23 PM, Mike <mike.cloaked@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Steve Searle <steve <at> stevesearle.com> writes: > > > Assuming it was not a locked screen saver asking for your password (and > > from what you have said it isn't), then this certainly *isn't* normal > > behaviour and it is a problem. > > > > I would agree with others who think it may be a crashing screensaver > > taking down the X Windows system. I have had this in the past when I > > have had a random selection of screen savers. I would disable > > screensavers and see if the problem goes away. If it does, you can then > > activate them one at a time until it appears. In my experience the > > problem is worse with 3gl cards and proprietary drivers. > > I can confirm this type of behaviour also. On machines running F8 with > the KDE desktop and running gl screensavers I had one machine hang X > completely as soon as the mouse was moved - the machine was running > and i could ssh in, but X had crashed completely and even doing > telinit 3 followed by telinit 5 did not restart X. This repeated at > various random intervals. > > The only option I could find at that point was to reboot. > Changing back to a non-gl screensaver gave no recurrence of this problem. > > It is possible others are seeing these symptoms and rebooting but not > reporting. Thanks to all of you for your replies. I have just deactivated the screensaver and will see what happens. I do have a long list of screensavers and have Random as the selection The problem was not a screensaver lock, it is a restart of X putting me back to the GDM login window. Mikkel: Thanks for the log message post. /var/log/messages does have a lot of lines like Dec 8 07:36:04 f8 gdm-binary[10911]: WARNING: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 which I believe is X restarting. I did find some kernel restart lines also, but I believe those were all from times I rebooted manually. I am back running Gnome/GDM, after running KDE.KDM for about a month. This behavior is just since switching environments. Please no flame wars about Gnome/KDE. They both have great features. Gerry
