[solved] xorg-server spontaneously terminates after idling

koslowj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 100

I managed to complete the safer upgrade procedure to python 3.12 described in a recent news update. But already after the first step my xorg-server started to behave strangely. After idling a few minutes, maybe 15 or 20, it spontaneously shuts down. I'm running the cinnamon desktop environment. The file Xorg.0.log doesn't show any indication as to why this happens. I has never happened while I was working. Any ideas, besides waiting for the current python 3.12 upgrade storm to settle?

koslowj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 100

cinnamon-screensaver 6.0.3 seems to be the culprit. After switching that off, the problem has not reappeared so far.

Banana · Posted: Sun Jun 09, 2024 8:07 am Post subject:

thank you for lettings us know the solution.

Did you try it with a different version?
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koslowj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 100

As this happened after the somewhat demanding upgrade to python 3.12, and since nobody else is using my machine, I can live w/o a screensaver. Just for information the eix-output:

Available versions: 5.8.1 6.0.3 {systemd xinerama PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_10 python3_11 python3_12"}
Installed versions: 6.0.3(07:55:30 06/03/24)(-systemd -xinerama PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_12 -python3_10 -python3_11")

Up to switching the screensaver off, syslog recorded quite a number of alternating warnings that the screensaver has left the bus, or has appeared on the bus. Maybe that helps tracking down the problem.

eschwartz · Developer Joined: 29 Oct 2023 Posts: 217

Please try accepting ~arch for cinnamon-session-6.0.4 as I backported a crash fix for that which manifests specifically once idling is triggered.