On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 14:46 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Does the machine that that account is logged on from fire up a screen-locking screen saver after some reasonable amount of inactivity (like 20 min or so?)
No, it just sits there doing nothing forever until someone sits down in front of it.
So something is happening on this machine.
Apparently. I have just been looking at the log from the previous weekend when it shut down before.
Here is what /var/log/messages has to say from April 2. Once again the pscd line is right at the top of the log immediately after the shutdown signal. I don't know if that's suggestive, or just a coincidence.
Apr 2 09:12:43 answeringmachine vgetty[22949]: message keep, length=00:01:02, name='', caller=none, dev=ttyACM0, pid=22949 Apr 2 09:23:20 answeringmachine vgetty[22963]: message keep, length=00:00:25, name='', caller=none, dev=ttyACM0, pid=22963 Apr 2 09:43:56 answeringmachine gdm[2880]: Master halting... Apr 2 09:43:56 answeringmachine shutdown[2880]: shutting down for system halt Apr 2 09:43:57 answeringmachine pcscd: winscard.c:304:SCardConnect() Reader E-Gate 0 0 Not Found Apr 2 09:43:57 answeringmachine mgetty[2884]: failed dev=ttyS2, pid=2884, got signal 15, exiting
and so on through the rest of the shutdown.