Package: gdm Version: 2.20.7-4lenny1 Severity: normal The system is powered down immediately at unforeseeable times without even proper shutdown, causing data loss and destroying recordable media being burned. This happens around once or twice daily at irregular times. It is of no importance which programs are running or if a screensaver is configured. It happens regardless of user activity, even in the middle of the night.
It does not happen, however, as long as: - GDM and X are not running at all or: - GDM is showing the greeter (i.e., X is running) (I tested this for about a week each.) --- i.e., it only happens in a user session Once it has happened, the computer may even switch off once or twice a few seconds after restarting. Then things calm down. There are no discernable hardware problems such as overheating, fan failure or harddisk failure. I have installed monitors. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2. 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii gksu 2.0.0-8 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session [x-se 2.22.3-2 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-terminal [x-t 2.22.3-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 1:2.4.43-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.6.4-7 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-5+lenny1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdmx1 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2+lenny1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.12-1~lenny1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpam-modules 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.0.1-5+lenny1 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.5-5 Layout and rendering of internatio ii librsvg2-2 2.22.2-2lenny1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii librsvg2-common 2.22.2-2lenny1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-3 X11 authorisation library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxi6 2:1.1.4-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5+lenny1 GNOME XML library ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii metacity [x-window- 1:2.22.0-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii roxterm [x-terminal 1.11.1-1.1 multi-tabbed GTK+2 terminal emulat ii twm [x-window-manag 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager ii xterm [x-terminal-e 235-2 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gdm recommends: ii gdm-themes 0.6.1 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.3 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe pn xserver-xephyr | xnest <none> (no description available) ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+20 the X.Org X server ii zenity 2.22.1-2 Display graphical dialog boxes fro Versions of packages gdm suggests: ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.22.3-2 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key ii locales 2.7-18 GNU C Library: National Language ( ii pm-utils 1.1.2.4-1 utilities and scripts for power ma -- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
