[LlamaBoy]

Ok this is driving me nuts, and I must find the answer to protect my sanity. I have a 1.25GHz PB 15" with 10.3. Whenever I am about to step away from my computer, I turn the brightness all the way down to preserve the screen. I have the screensaver set for 10 minutes, but sometimes I don't want to wait that long. When I come back, I turn the brightness all the way back up, and IT KEEPS LOGGING ME OUT!! Everything will freeze for a couple of minutes, and I know it is closing everything down in the background.

A couple of side notes: I do NOT have fast user switching enabled, and I don't have QuickKeys or any keyboard software installed. Is this a Panther "feature", and if so, how the hell do I turn it off???

Thanks!

[ibook_steve]

In Security preferences, do you have automatic logout enabled? If so, turn it off.

Steve

[LlamaBoy]

Nope, that's not it. Thanks for trying!

[crouchingtiger]

sounds like the computer is crashing. Next time it does it, open in HARD_DRIVE_ROOT/Library/Logs/CrashReporter the login_window log and see if the last entry corresponds to the time of the crash. (HARD_DRIVE_ROOT is your hard drive name, of course)

[Icekey]

I'm having the same problem. I can replicate this problem though by covering both speakers with your hands in a fairly dim room. It will log me out. I'm getting this replaced anyway so I havne't bothered to find out

[LlamaBoy]

Couchingtiger-
That could be the problem! I thought it was just a shortcut to a logoff command, but in actuality it could be crashing. I pulled up the CrashReporter, and there are definately reports at the same time as the logout. Does anyone know a utility or resource to translate the reports from CrashReporter? Here is one of them:

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0:
#0 0x900075c8 in mach_msg_trap (mach_msg_trap + 8)
#1 0x90007118 in mach_msg (mach_msg + 56)
#2 0x901b9b7c in __CFXNotificationSendToServer (__CFXNotificationSendToServer + 568)
#3 0x901af1dc in _CFXNotificationPostNotification (_CFXNotificationPostNotification + 796)
#4 0x90a5df78 in -[NSDistributedNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:options:] (-[NSDistributedNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:options:] + 120)
#5 0x0056cd4c in AudioHardwarePropertyListener (AudioHardwarePropertyListener + 4764)
#6 0x909f7804 in _nsnote_callback (_nsnote_callback + 176)
#7 0x901e7d68 in __CFXNotificationPostEntry (__CFXNotificationPostEntry + 148)
#8 0x901d5848 in __CFXNotificationHandleMessage (__CFXNotificationHandleMessage + 428)
#9 0x901d05c4 in __CFXNotificationReceiveFromServer (__CFXNotificationReceiveFromServer + 336)
#10 0x901ad4d0 in __CFMachPortPerform (__CFMachPortPerform + 224)
#11 0x901a9c54 in __CFRunLoopDoSource1 (__CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 200)
#12 0x90191b20 in __CFRunLoopRun (__CFRunLoopRun + 1344)
#13 0x901960bc in CFRunLoopRunSpecific (CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 328)
#14 0x927d5ecc in RunCurrentEventLoopInMode (RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 172)
#15 0x927dc5b8 in ReceiveNextEventCommon (ReceiveNextEventCommon + 244)
#16 0x927fe6d0 in BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode (BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 96)
#17 0x92dd2a80 in _DPSNextEvent (_DPSNextEvent + 384)
#18 0x92de93fc in -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] (-[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 116)
#19 0x92dfd730 in -[NSApplication run] (-[NSApplication run] + 540)
#20 0x0000d814 in 0xd814
#21 0x0000a31c in 0xa31c
#22 0x0000a190 in 0xa190

There are other threads but I didn't want to post a huge message if unnecessary.