Strange Logout

[Number1Gnubie]

Since I have neen using Mandrake 7.2, from time to time... very rare, the window manager will just log itself out. This has happened with both KDE2 and GNOME, and I am guessing any other (window manager) if I was using them more often. I will be in the middle of any task, and all the windows will just suddently close as if I had clicked logout, and I will be returned to the login screen... its annoying when I am running an ircd, or other service that sould stay up for long periods of time. I can think of no action or program that has always been running to cause it, but so far only when I am actually using it, not away.
Is there a way to possibly see a log of what might have taken place to cause it.. I know Linux must have one somewhere... and does anyone know a likely reason/fix for it? Thanks a bunch, Chuck

[Edited for grammatic purposes.. though I think I spelled grammatic wrong]

[This message has been edited by Number1Gnubie (edited 29 November 2000).]

[mastersibn]

When you log in to the command line, your shell is the program that provides you with the command prompt. With X, that shell is not needed, so IIRC X substitutes another program for the shell. Now, if I'm not mistaken, if that program is buggy, it could terminate abnormally, which would kill the entire session. Usually you'd have some stuff in your ~/.xsession file telling the X server to start certain programs, and once again, IIRC the first one is substituted as the shell. I could be wrong, it could be the last one.

In any case, open ~/.xsession and copy it to here.


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