F7 auto-rebooting unasked
Beartooth
Beartooth at swva.net
Sun Jun 17 16:46:37 UTC 2007
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 14:27:44 +0200, Andreas Bernauer wrote:
> Beartooth wrote on Sat, Jun 09 2007 at 15:54 (+0000):
[...]
>> I have also made sure that the screensaver does *not* lock my screen --
>> I have no need of that feature, and therefore find it a mere
>> superfluous irritation. (No one else ever touches any machine of mine.)
Correction 1 : I've done everything I can find or think of -- but that
might not mean it isn't locking it. If you go into the Configuration
Editor, for instance, there are an awful lot of settings that may be
relevant; and I remember a release of FC when it took something like one
of them to keep the fool thing from locking me out.
However : Update : it is now logging me out, but not rebooting. After a
fairly short while, I get a login screen, which when given userid and
password tries to restore not what i was just doing, but some recent
session a day or so before that.
>> So I'm pretty sure the problem (in at least the case where a problem is
>> confirmed) is actual full rebooting, not just a lock nor a logout.
Not true any more. Still irritating, but not quite so much time being
wasted trying to get back to where I left off.
> My X server kicks me out every now and then, too. The reason here is a
> the buggy fglrx driver which has a memory whole. When it uses up all
> the memory (eg. when I watch movies), the X server restarts.
I don't do video at all. I seldom do moving images of any sort, or sound
either. I might sometimes let this machine play a music CD in the
background -- I should, in fact -- but I haven't been doing so lately.
Fwiw, it has a 36 GB hard drive and the system monitor says it has 994.8
MiB of memory. But I have no idea what a fglrx driver is, nor whether
anything I run uses one.
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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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