On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 14:46 -0400, m.roth at 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. > -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com