On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 12:51:51 +1000 James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 08:49 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > This is still driving me crazy and I would be grateful for any help. > > > > System: dead standard Debian woody with 2.4.18-bf2.4 + security > > updates+ Login.app + sylpheed 0.9.12 backport. > > > > Problem: running X I get logged out after about 20 of inactivity. It > > happens no matter what window manager I am using. > > Is that 20 seconds, minutes or hours of inactivity? Sorry - 20 minutes <SNIP> > I've come to this thread a little late, so apologies if I'm repeating > ground that's already been covered. > > The first port-of-call will be to run > > tail -f ~/.xsession-errors > > On a console and wait for it to die. If there's an error from a > program running *inside* the xserver, it will report something in that > file about it. This will allow you eliminate problems with > xscreensaver, typing monitors, window managers and probably a bunch of > other processes that don't normally bear consideration. > > Next thing to do is to run > > tail -f /var/log/XFree86.0.log > > as root (I'm assuming that's the file you need to watch -- all my > boxes are Xorg now). If there's a problem in the server itself, you > should get notification in that file. > > When tailing files like that I like to bash enter a few times once the > system is in a "stable" state, so that the section of log where it's > an error is clearly visible. > > If you can't make sense of these logs, post them to the list and maybe > someone will see something in them. > > Finally, do you get logged out if you login from console and do > > startx -- :1 > > If not, then it's a [gkx]dm problem. There's some options in gdm about > timed sessions. I don't recall what they are or what they do. Worth > checking out though. > Thanks James. I'll give all of these a try. Cheers, Alan > HTH, > > James. > > -- > James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
