Subject: bug#920: devuan-desktop: System automatically logs out after a few minutes inactivity.

From: Bob Bowles <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 21:25:06 +0000

Hi Mark

Pleased to hear you have made some progress.

I briefly tried switching to lightdm and xdm, with similar results.
Both logged errors indicating the xsession received a kill signal
after about 10 minutes of inactivity. In the case of lightdm it failed
to recover and left the computer with a blank screen with the only
options <Alt-SysReq>-B or hitting the power button. So for now I have
reconfigured slim, as the lesser of evils.

The big question is what is generating the SIGTERM?

Kind Regards  Bob

On Thu, 6 Nov 2025 at 18:39, Mark Hindley <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> Control: reassign -1 slim
> Control: retitle -1 slim receives SIGTERM after period of inactivity
>
> Bob,
>
> We have managed to reproduce this and believe it is a problem with
> slim. Hopefully rrq can debug further.
>
> You might try changing to another display manager. Either xdm or wdm might be a
> good choice for an older system. If that works around the issue for you, perhaps
> you could confirm and it will at least make us certain we have identified the
> right component.
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark

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