FC6 logs me out every 10 minutes

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 13:58:35 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:02 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:50 +0000, Scott van Looy wrote:
> > Today Dan Hensley did spake thusly:
> > >>
> > >> Any idea what's happening???
> > >
> > > Ok, as soon as I sent this I suspected the screensaver, and that is
> > > exactly what it is.  When I try to change my screensaver in System |
> > > Preferences, I get logged out as soon as the config panel shows up.  So
> > > my next question is, where are the screensaver preferences stored, and
> > > how can I change them manually?
> > >
> > > And of course my next question is, why is the stupid screensaver logging
> > > me out?
> > 
> > Am guessing you're not actually being logged out (ie you don't see the 
> > logout screen) but everything just goes black and then the login screen 
> > appears? What graphics card do you use? Are you trying to run a 3d 
> > screensaver? It would seem to me to be indicative of a broken OpenGL chunk 
> > somewhere...
> 
> That's correct.  Everything goes black and the login screen appears
> after a few seconds.
> 
> I think there was a glibc update yesterday, and that's probably what
> broke it.  I've been using the same screensaver for weeks, and I have
> made no other changes recently.
> 
> I have an NVidia 6600GT card, and I'm using a recent 3D driver from
> NVidia.  Ironically, I have to use this driver because the x.org driver
> will not display at 1680x1050.  That's the other issue I have had with
> the FC6 upgrade.  It seems to insist on displaying 1280x1024, even when
> 1680x1050 is the ONLY resolution in my config file.
> 
> Dan

Check the kernel log after a "log-out".
You should see X.org/nVidia driver crash message.
If I'm correct, I'd suggest you file a report in
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

- Gilboa




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