Logout window opens repeatedly on its own

[joe.blough]

I’ve had the logout window repeatedly appear lately. The only solution to make it go away was to disconnect sys-net. This was before and after a fresh install of 4.2.0. Subsequently, I did a fresh install of 4.2.1 and haven’t seen the problem yet. Has anyone seen this problem?

[apparatus]

There was a similar report recently:

Suspend issue

Odd one: if I lock the screen, the locked screen keeps waking up in an endless cycle. So I thought, who needs lock? I’ll just suspend to RAM instead of locking. This works fine (although once you wake it up you end up in the same cycle if you don’t log in). So it seems like something keeps not so much ‘waking it up’ but doing something that’s detected as user activity. And then I realized, the screen never dims and the inactivity-to-sleep interval is never reached, even if I don’t touch th…

[joe.blough]

I wonder if that’s more related to my other post

Computer wakes from sleep on its own

Is there a reason why my computer wakes from sleep on its own, like update scripts? I just did a fresh install of 4.2.1 yesterday. I didn’t really do much other than browse a few news website and forums and put the computer to sleep for the night. I woke up to find the computer awake.

[apparatus]

Maybe I didn’t understood correctly what do you mean by logout window.

[apparatus]

Do you mean this window?

In that case maybe it’s a hardware problem with you power button on your PC case or sleep button on keyboard.

[joe.blough]

Yeap, that window. Good idea. I have a VFD display with a remote control and there could be random RF signals sent. If I hit the power button on the remote, that window appears. The battery on the remote was strangely dead yesterday and I had to recharge it. That has to be it.

[johnhwoods]

This is similar to my problem. What I have is that when I have successfully locked the computer, the screen keeps waking up. I haven’t been able to prevent that by using software to disable touchpad and mouse input. Next time I open the laptop I’ll try a hardware disconnect.