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Offline philld

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<Solved> Session terminates and restarts
« on: October 12, 2011, 07:03:11 AM »
This problem has started to occur in the last week or so.  I though it was only related to playing videos but have noticed the same behaviour with other applications as well.  What will happen, and it could be at the start of the application or at the end of the application, the entire session that is running is terminated, I see some OS type messages fly by on the screen and then I am back at the login prompt.  I have to restart all the programs that I have running and if any download was in progress, nine times out of ten, the download restarts from the beginning, the other one, it usually is ended with a filesize of 16K.  This problem has occurred with SMPlayer, Firefox and "Configure Your Computer".  Typically I have about four or five different applications running at all times - Firefox, Krusader, Thunderbird, Vuze and Pidgin.  Any clues as to what may be happening to cause this?
« Last Edit: October 15, 2011, 04:41:16 AM by philld »

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Re: Session terminates and restarts
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2011, 07:05:51 AM »
What video driver is showing in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file?


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Re: Session terminates and restarts
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2011, 07:20:04 AM »
From /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
    Identifier "device1"
    VendorName "ATI Technologies Inc"
    BoardName "ATI Radeon HD 2000 and later (radeon/fglrx)"
    Driver "fglrx"
    Option "DPMS"
EndSection

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Re: Session terminates and restarts
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2011, 07:24:20 AM »
You need to remove the existing packages and re-install them which will back the driver down to version 8.881.

Remove the following 3 packages with Synaptic and the previous version will show up 8.881 and you can mark them for installation.

dkms-fglrx
fglrx-control-center
x11-driver-video-fglrx


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Re: Session terminates and restarts
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2011, 09:14:52 AM »
Thanks - well give that a try and watch it for a few days to see if everything is back to normal and let you know.

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Re: Session terminates and restarts
« Reply #5 on: October 15, 2011, 04:40:39 AM »
Am marking this solved - it has been a couple of days now since making the above suggested change and no abends since.  Thanks Texstar.  Only thing I can add to the above it that after making the change and rebooting, I was brought to the command line login (no xwindows).  Reran XFdrake and all was fine.