desperate : session stops unexpectedly and kills all depending running jobs

[Robin Laing]

Jacob (=Jouk) Jansen wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Since I upgraded from FC5 to FC6 I cannot leave my gnome-session
> running overnight. At some (random) time the session is killed. All
> jobs running in this session are killed too. I have no idea what
> causes this. I attached some typical messages found in the file in
> /var/logs around the time it happens at the end of this mail  Can
> anyone please get me some hint how to solve the problem or point to 
> the package that is at fault so that I can send in a proper
> bug-report at bugzilla. (Now I do not know which packege to blame)  
> Jouk
> 
> excerpts from /var/logs :  [root at tarantella log]# fgrep "14 17:48" * 
> acpid:[Tue Nov 14 17:48:27 2006] client connected from 9188[0:0] 
> acpid:[Tue Nov 14 17:48:27 2006] 1 client rule loaded messages:Nov 14
> 17:48:43 hrem175 gconfd (joukj-7837): GConf server is not in use,
> shutting down. messages:Nov 14 17:48:43 hrem175 gconfd (joukj-7837):
> Exiting secure:Nov 14 17:48:23 hrem175 gdm[2745]:
> pam_unix(gdm:session): session closed for user joukj [root at tarantella
> log]#
> 
> 
>  [root at tarantella log]# fgrep "16 21:51" * acpid:[Thu Nov 16 21:51:39
> 2006] client connected from 6551[0:0] acpid:[Thu Nov 16 21:51:39
> 2006] 1 client rule loaded messages:Nov 16 21:51:31 tarantella gconfd
> (joukj-2895): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanly messages:Nov
> 16 21:51:33 tarantella gconfd (joukj-2895): Exiting secure:Nov 16
> 21:51:36 tarantella gdm[2802]: pam_unix(gdm:session): session closed
> for user joukj secure:Nov 16 21:51:38 tarantella su:
> pam_unix(su-l:session): session closed for user root Xorg.0.log:(==)
> Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Nov 16 21:51:39 2006 
> [root at tarantella log]#
> 
> 

Just a thought.

Could it be an auto-logout (time limit) setting in the OS?

-- 
Robin Laing