From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Description of problem: When running Fedora Core 2 (the stable release) the system crashes and resets to the login screen spontaneously. This doesn not seem to be tied to the running of any particular application or application. Sometimes it happens when the computer is just sitting idle. I am sure it is not a hardware problem because this does not happen on the Windows side. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedore Core 2 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. No steps. It just happens randomly. 2. 3. Additional info:
This sounds like the X server is crashing.
Please attach your /var/log/messages (including everything from boot time onward), the X server log and config file, and any details that might help to diagnose the problem and determine wether it is the X server, video driver, kernel, or something else. Please attach uncompressed individual files using the link below, and we'll investigate. Thanks in advance.
*** This is an automated comment update *** The X11 implementation included with Fedora Core 2 and 3, is "X.Org X11" provided by the X.Org project located at "http://www.x.org". XFree86 is no longer included in Fedora Core. To ensure faster review and investigation of X related Fedora Core bug reports, please be sure to file the bug against the correct component of "xorg-x11" in the future. Thanks in advance. Reassigning several bugs from XFree86 component to proper xorg-x11 component ...
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates to the X Window System, which may resolve this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version of Fedora Core, which can be obtained from: http://fedora.redhat.com/download If this issue turns out to still be reproduceable in the latest version of Fedora Core, please file a bug report in the X.Org bugzilla located at http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component. Once you've filed your bug report to X.Org, if you paste the new bug URL here, Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized X.Org bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Setting status to "CURRENTRELEASE".