kde sessions logged out

[Rex Dieter]

On 01/10/2012 08:19 AM, Roderick Johnstone wrote:
> On 10/01/12 13:44, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> Roderick Johnstone wrote:
>>
>>> This morning my users came in to find that they had had their locked F16
>>> kde sessions logged out. Indications are that this happened about the
>>> time of our nightly yum update. The systems had not rebooted so we can
>>> probably rule out a power glitch.
>>
>> I'd look in these users' ~/.xsession-errors for anything suspicious.  Them
>> losing their X session likely indicates an X server crash of some sort.
>>
>
> Many people have logged in again, and I think that has created new
> .xsession-errors files, but I did find one .xsession-errors file with
> relevant info that I'm appending. This one was an nx session, in case
> you were wondering about the high port number.
>
> Does that log suggest what happened to you? Something sent a SIGTERM?
> What would do that?

> XIO:  fatal IO error 4 (Interrupted system call) on X server ":1046"
>        after 23 requests (23 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> konsole: Fatal IO error: client killed

This one is a strong hint that the X server went away alright.

-- rex