Re: unwanted login

Thursday, 31 August 2023

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:37 PM Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote:

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 On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:20:50 +0930, Tim via users wrote:

 > On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 19:09 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
 >> One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and
 >> over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at
 >> home.) Fwiw, I'm running xscreensaver under Mate. Where and how do I
 >> reconfigure?
 >
 > I 'spose we should confirm, do you mean the screen saver is kicking in
 > and you have to unlock it.  Or are you getting logged out?

         I'm actually getting logged out; I have to give my username (id
 est, confirm the default) and type my password every time.

Kernel.org has been working clean up power management, see
<https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/power/apm-acpi.html>;.   Buggy
ACPI implementations have been causing problems with wake from
sleep, etc.   Some vendors have firmware updates that may help.
Are all your machines the same?

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 > Some xscreensavers were known to crash the display.

         I've never seen that happen.

         My practice after installing every new release has been to tell
 dnf first to remove mate-screensaver and then to install xscreensaver. The
 latter is still working fine on the other two machines in front of me.

         I've just reversed that: told dnf to install mate-screensaver and
 remove xscreensaver. I found out immediately that the former doesn't let
 me manage my screen in any of the ways I want.

         Would it help to reboot? Could there be a problem with my KVM
 switch??

Easy to test by taking KVM switch out the loop -- there have been
issues with the EDID getting corrupted on resume from sleep.
See: <https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/edid.html>

-- 
George N. White III