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Panther, sudden logout
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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I was working in iPhoto today. I ejected a CD from my PowerBook G4's drive and then all the sudden the screen turned blue. It was like that for a few seconds, when the desktop background re-appeared, and then the Dock popped up.
All my login item started loading, and applications opened just when I log in the first time.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Definitely something weird is going on here...
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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My 17" was doing this when it had a stick of bad ram.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Your loginwindow crashed, somehow. It's a background process that supports all your user stuff when you log in. Mine used to crash more frequently under 10.1 & 10.2.
You could check out you RAM, but it's probably no big deal, unless it starts happening all the time. You could also delete the loginwindow.plist (there's actually two-- one in your user prefs and another in /library/prefs
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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In 10.2 Mine would crash everytime I did anything to something on a flash memmory card...then ejected it...
in 10.3 I have to force quit the finder to get it to eject afterwards
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It just works so I don't have to
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Join Date: Aug 2000
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It happened a few times in 10.2. I don't remember it happening in 10.3. I'm sure that under 10.3.4, it has never happened.
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Current: XPC SB81P, 3GHz P4, 1GB RAM; Compaq Presario V2410US, Turion 64 ML-30, 512MB RAM
Previous: Sawtooth G4/400 448MB RAM
ATI Radeon 8500 64MB - flashed variant
OS X 10.3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399 37510
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Chico, CA and Carlsbad, CA.
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I just noticed that this has been happening a few times on my system in the last few weeks. I mainly notice it when I go home for the weekend and I come back three days later and all my apps have active "Save" dialogs and there is a message from the Finder saying that logout was cancelled.
I leave applications open like the Terminal and Textedit all the time, so I'm glad that these keep my computer from logging out all the way... but what the heck?
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Join Date: Sep 2000
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Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
I just noticed that this has been happening a few times on my system in the last few weeks. I mainly notice it when I go home for the weekend and I come back three days later and all my apps have active "Save" dialogs and there is a message from the Finder saying that logout was cancelled.
I leave applications open like the Terminal and Textedit all the time, so I'm glad that these keep my computer from logging out all the way... but what the heck?
That's not the same thing. When loginwindow crashes, there's no chance to save.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Originally posted by dtriska:
That's not the same thing. When loginwindow crashes, there's no chance to save.
wtf. That's not cool, now I have to figure out what the heck is causing it. 
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Originally posted by chris v:
Your loginwindow crashed, somehow. It's a background process that supports all your user stuff when you log in. Mine used to crash more frequently under 10.1 & 10.2.
You could check out you RAM, but it's probably no big deal, unless it starts happening all the time. You could also delete the loginwindow.plist (there's actually two-- one in your user prefs and another in /library/prefs
CV
I really hope that it is not the RAM. The PowerBook is brand new, and has just arrived from Apple. All the memory in it is stock, and have not been touched yet. Hm.....
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Join Date: Jan 2002
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Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
wtf. That's not cool, now I have to figure out what the heck is causing it.
You don't have your Energy Saver prefs scheduled to shut down by any chance?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
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My G4 just did this. I had just switched users, had ejected the CD and it logged me out. The strangest thing is that the iHam on iRye background process continued to run as did the MLDonkey daemon, both processes started by my user, just the GUI apps had closed.
Weirdness.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Chico, CA and Carlsbad, CA.
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Originally posted by JKT:
You don't have your Energy Saver prefs scheduled to shut down by any chance?
Yes. I was playing with the scheduled startup settings a few weeks ago, oops. I guess my problems are elsewhere, thanks for pointing that out. 
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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The problem could be either a crash in loginwindow or the windowserver, both will log you out if they crash.
Both are servers which contain lots of system related services ( loginwindow allows Apple only plugins)
Apple are interested in this kind of crash, so look for a crash log in
/ Library/Logs/loginwindow.crash.log, or /Libarary/Logs/windowserver.crash.log
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