I'm not sure if it's related, but I just then experienced the same thing. I was
able to use the computer for about 30 seconds after being away from the
computer for 20 minutes.
The computer wasn't in sleep mode, but the screensaver had kicked in. When I
moved the mouse I was able to do things,
Maybe the bug has metamorphosed. At any rate, the following is similar, but I
cannot work out
the appropriate heading under which to report it - if you know, please
redirect my report as
appropriate.
I now have Xubuntu 8.04 (from the 24 April CD image) on the same
machine.
On several
It happened to me again this evening. Here's some stuff from /var/log
/var/log/messages syslog and user.log:
21:04:44 localhost gconfd (pt-5429): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly
21:04:53 localhost gconfd (pt-5429): Exiting
auth.log:
21:04:51 localhost gdm[4876]: (pam_unix) session
I'm using Ubuntu Dapper on some elderly hardware. As with Jan Kalab,
this has happened to me a number of times after a period of inactivity.
On the last occasion, I had only a Gnome Terminal, Emacs and Xdvi
running; I was sitting on the other side of the room, the screensaver
was running, and
