[NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox 3.5.3 seems to auto-log-me-off

[Leroy Tennison]

Chris Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 02:37 -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>> I have now had this happen twice, both times while viewing a web page in 
>> Firefox.  Will be doing something and the screen suddenly goes blank. 
>> Next thing I'm presented with is the SuSE 10.3 login screen.  I log back 
>> in, all applications are closed but everything seems fine.  So far I 
>> haven't figured out how to replicate the issue.  Anyone else 
>> experiencing this issue?
> 
> Sudden crashes of the X server CAN be difficult to see and diagnose.
> 
> My recommendation.  From a vc, login as root, and change to runlevel 3
> (type: init 3)
> 
> Then logout, login as your user account and type: startx
> 
> Then do whatever you like to do under X Windows.... and when it crashes,
> look at whatever info might show up on the vc you were logged in at.
> 
> Just something to try...
> 
> This might not be easy to fix... (just fyi)
> 
> 
> 
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Checked the logs: "caught signal 11 -server aborting"  If it's going to 
be difficult to fix but happens infrequently I'll live with it.