Devuan bug report logs - #920
xorg dpms activation causes server exit on i915

Package: libpciaccess0; Maintainer for libpciaccess0 is (unknown); Source for libpciaccess0 is src:libpciaccess.

Reported by: Bob Bowles <bobjohnbowles@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/1111301

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From: Bob Bowles <bobjohnbowles@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 21:25:06 +0000
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Subject: Re: bug#920: devuan-desktop: System automatically logs out after a
 few minutes inactivity.
To: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
Cc: 920@bugs.devuan.org, rrq@rrq.au
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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 <mark@hindley.org.uk> 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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