Bug#455567: base: GNOME dies, needs a restart

[Winterfeldt]

Hello, and sorry for replying before, but have been away from my computer

Well, it is not very easy to find some pattern in the behaviour, but it 
seams that if the system has been on for some hours, it sometimes stops. 
Here comes some more details:
- Usually, when one tries to log on, there is no reply. In those cases, 
the system can be reached by VNC, but is then very slow. Sometimed it 
helps to restart gdm (/etc/init.d/gdm restart), but usually not. 
However, it may take over an hour to do this. It may be possible to shut 
down the system with the init 0 command, but usally that does not work 
either.

- The system may respond to Ctrl+AltF1, but you can not log on. There is 
a slightly larger possibility to log on to Ctrl+Alt+F2, but it is the 
same as with VNC, you can not do anything.


Thanks for starting the investigation, and I hope I will be able to 
answer more quickly to questions in the future

Thanks
Lasse

Josselin Mouette skrev:
> Le lundi 10 décembre 2007 à 23:38 +0100, Lasse Winterfeldt a écrit :
>   
>> Package: base
>> Severity: important
>>
>> After some time (one or more hours) without beeing used, GDM stops responding. No 
>> mater if one or more users are logged on. 
>>     
>
> Is the computer still reachable through SSH ? Is the display frozen or
> completely black? Are the other VTs accessible through Ctrl+Alt+Fx ?
> Does it ever happen while using the computer? If not, does deactivating
> DPMS help?
>
> Thanks,
>   
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