OK this is bit weird. I know I still have a LOT to learn about linux but listen to this. Just several minutes ago I'm sitting here using my redhat when the screen blanks so get a fury thinking it is my rebooting problem again which by the way is much better. So it so doesn't reboot(I checked the system log to be sure) but goes right to the log in screen and it did this twice in about a minute.

Any of you linux experts every seen this before?

Thanks

just happened again twice

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If you are in a console session and type 'exit' it would take you to a login screen. Could you have down that? There's a few ways to reboot...

[as root]
shutdown -r now
typing "reboot"
hitting ctrl-alt-del
telinit 6

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Originally posted by Boulware5
If you are in a console session and type 'exit' it would take you to a login screen. Could you have down that? There's a few ways to reboot...

[as root]
shutdown -r now
typing "reboot"
hitting ctrl-alt-del
telinit 6

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Last edited by prezbedard on 02-01-03 at 11:22 PM

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Then you must have only logged out of X. There's ways in X to reboot while in GUI. Also there are ways to log out and return to a console login.

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Originally posted by Boulware5
Then you must have only logged out of X. There's ways in X to reboot while in GUI. Also there are ways to log out and return to a console login.

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It didn't reboot just logged out.

just didn't twice while I was editing this post

Here is the log of what just happened

I just noticed that in the log it says
Fatal X error. What could be causing that?

Feb 1 19:14:23 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[2916]: session closed for user Greg
Feb 1 19:14:24 localhost gdm[2916]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0
Feb 1 19:14:36 localhost gdm(pam_unix)[3170]: session opened for user Greg by (uid=0)
Feb 1 19:14:40 localhost kernel: Assertion failed! buffer != NULL,via82cxxx_audio.c,via_dsp_write,line=2308
Feb 1 19:14:44 localhost kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
Feb 1 19:15:18 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Feb 1 19:15:18 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0
Feb 1 19:15:19 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1
Feb 1 19:15:19 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0

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It happen that one time or keeps doing it? Looks like something with your sound card and CD. But you could have probably come to that conclusion. I have sometimes also got X errors while logging out. It wasn't harmful and didn't seem like a big deal so I ignored them.

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It happen that one time or keeps doing it? Looks like something with your sound card and CD. But you could have probably come to that conclusion. I have sometimes also got X errors while logging out. It wasn't harmful and didn't seem like a big deal so I ignored them.

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Hm, um, have you checked youe xfree86 log file and see what that says? See if you can find it in /var/log/XFree86.n.log where n is the display number of your X server.

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This line was repeated quite a few times.

GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 78800
GetModeLine - hdsp: 1024 hbeg: 1040 hend: 1136 httl: 1312
vdsp: 768 vbeg: 769 vend: 772 vttl: 800 flags: 5

While I was posting this it logged out again and I looked at the log and all of the above repeated entries were gone and I had this with just the above posted once.

(**) Option "dpms"
(**) TRIDENT(0): DPMS enabled
(II) TRIDENT(0): XvFlags: VID_ZOOM_INV VID_ZOOM_MINI
(II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
(II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
(II) Initializing built-in extension XTEST
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(II) Initializing built-in extension LBX
(II) Initializing built-in extension XC-APPGROUP
(II) Initializing built-in extension SECURITY
(II) Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA
(II) Initializing built-in extension XFree86-Bigfont
(II) Initializing built-in extension RENDER
(**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
(**) Mouse0: Protocol: "PS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Mouse0: Buttons: 5
(**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
(**) Mouse1: Protocol: "IMPS/2"
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents"
(**) Mouse1: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Mouse1: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Mouse1: Buttons: 5
(II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 78800


Should I try rebooting?
This only happens when I'm using it. I had the screen locked all night and it was fine until I went to this post again.


Also I just noticed that the cdrom light is blinking and there is no cd in it.
That could be the reason for the cdrom error in the system log. I'm wondering what could be causing the light to contune to blink? The system might be attempting to read form the drive. What could be causing it to do that?

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