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JonathanArcher

Member

From: San Francisco

Registered: 2008-11-12

Posts: 108

KDE4(KDEmod): Sudden random logout to KDM

Since the last big Xserver update, at least I started noticing this since then and it may not be connected, I get thrown out of KDE4 every once in a while. Sometimes it is just when I start a new application, independent of the application itself, I get logged out and have to login again in KDM.

Sometimes it just happens when I don't do anything on the computer for a while, which made me suspect that maybe something in the powersaving settings is wierd, but when I switched those off (respectively I switched off anything that would lock my computer or shut it down), it didn't change, I still get thrown out of KDE4 from time to time.

I just run the usual KDE4 processes plus yakuake in background, nothing else that could do something like that. I couldn't really find anything here on the forums about that, only that people can't login at all, but that is not my problem, I can login and use KDE4 just fine.

So, anyone got any ideas?

brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: KDE4(KDEmod): Sudden random logout to KDM

To me, it sounds like X crashing...

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: KDE4(KDEmod): Sudden random logout to KDM

Any hints from the logs? Especially Xorg.0.log?
dmesg?

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signor_rossi

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Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 257

Re: KDE4(KDEmod): Sudden random logout to KDM

Have you enabed the desktop effects? The last time I was thrown out of X I tried to enable them. You may try to start with a clean config and not touch these settings. Or do you have some fancy options enabled in xorg.conf?

JonathanArcher

Member

From: San Francisco

Registered: 2008-11-12

Posts: 108

Re: KDE4(KDEmod): Sudden random logout to KDM

Actually I have the effects disabled now, because of something different. But since then it didn't happen, so maybe thats it. I'll get back to you when it happens next and then I am going to check the logs.