This one is driving me nuts. Randomly lion would log me out. I'm not sure if it's some random keyboard shortcut I'm pressing by mistake of what, but every now and then it just logs me out!! It goes back to the choose user screen. Anyone else experienced this??
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Annoying random logout in Lion!
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I'm having the same issue! I even made a thread about it but no one would reply. I just happened to me, I opened my MacBook Pro to wake it from sleep, and there was a spinning wheel (NOT the beach ball cursor, but the grey wheel you get during boot) ON my desktop, in front of all my apps. It was NOT my mouse. Then shortly after, I get a grey screen and I am at the login window. All unsaved work is lost.
This has happened to me around 6 times since I have Lion, and it's very annoying! Anyone with ideas, please help!
Here's the log for the most recent crash/logout:
Are you running any third-party software, or anything like that? What stuff runs when your system starts?
This has happened to me around 6 times since I have Lion, and it's very annoying! Anyone with ideas, please help!
Here's the log for the most recent crash/logout:
Are you running any third-party software, or anything like that? What stuff runs when your system starts?
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This happens to me quite a lot on my macbook pro (intel core 2 duo).
It doesn't matter if i'm using Safari, iTunes, Final Cut Pro 7 or Mail.
Every so often it'll just completely hang and sign out.
Total rubbish from apple as there was no issue for me with snow leopard. Wish they'd get their act together. What load of garbage / rubbish / (I want to use an expletive but I know a load of you will complain).
You'll understand how annoying it is when you have lost half a final cut project.
Tim Cook you better sort this out.
It doesn't matter if i'm using Safari, iTunes, Final Cut Pro 7 or Mail.
Every so often it'll just completely hang and sign out.
Total rubbish from apple as there was no issue for me with snow leopard. Wish they'd get their act together. What load of garbage / rubbish / (I want to use an expletive but I know a load of you will complain).
You'll understand how annoying it is when you have lost half a final cut project.
Tim Cook you better sort this out.
So now that we have a few people with this issue, let's try to figure out what may be causing it (other than just Lion being crap).
What special drivers are you guys using? I'm using a Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet driver, but never had issues with it before Lion. There's nothing else really that runs in the background.
My logouts generally happen when I feel like I'm running out of RAM (I have 4 GB), especially in Photoshop, when it's doing something complicated and I switch to another desktop. It has already crashed twice on the desktop-switching animation. Maybe it's related to multiple desktops?
Once it happened while waking the computer. I woke it and boom, logout.
How do the logouts happen? I get a spinning grey wheel on top of my frozen desktop, it looks like this (it's not an actual screen shot but a montage I did to explain what it's like):
After that, my entire screen goes grey for a few seconds, and then I'm presented with the login screen where I have to type in my password.
That's all I can say really
What special drivers are you guys using? I'm using a Wacom Bamboo graphics tablet driver, but never had issues with it before Lion. There's nothing else really that runs in the background.
My logouts generally happen when I feel like I'm running out of RAM (I have 4 GB), especially in Photoshop, when it's doing something complicated and I switch to another desktop. It has already crashed twice on the desktop-switching animation. Maybe it's related to multiple desktops?
Once it happened while waking the computer. I woke it and boom, logout.
How do the logouts happen? I get a spinning grey wheel on top of my frozen desktop, it looks like this (it's not an actual screen shot but a montage I did to explain what it's like):
After that, my entire screen goes grey for a few seconds, and then I'm presented with the login screen where I have to type in my password.
That's all I can say really
This has happened to me too, only once however. I get the exact same thing, the spinning grey wheel over my desktop and then bam.. back to the login screen. Very strange indeed. Could be something to do with mutliple desktops and a lot of system activity as the prev poster mentioned, I recall it happened to me under those conditions. No sure fire way to recreate it however. Its not happened since, but Im glad to see Im not the only one.
Have any of you guys installed Boom from the App Store?
I remember seeing something about that app causing spontaneous log-outs on Lion recently.
I remember seeing something about that app causing spontaneous log-outs on Lion recently.
You can read the comments here about it: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36700/boom
Apparently 1.2 is supposed to fix that issue, but Boom generally seems to have its fair share of bugs. I'd stay away from it for the time being.
Apparently 1.2 is supposed to fix that issue, but Boom generally seems to have its fair share of bugs. I'd stay away from it for the time being.
Post the crash report. I would suggest try creating a new user and logout all other users and see if the problem happens in the new user account.
Just happened to me on my MB Pro.
How can I help debug this?
EDIT: WindowServer crashed. Crash log attached.
How can I help debug this?
EDIT: WindowServer crashed. Crash log attached.
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Yeah, it is a known problem with the Snow Leopard kernel and the Lion kernel. The code which switches between GPUs is buggy. My temporary solution was to the disable automatic graphics card switching in the Energy Saver preferences. This helps, but this activates the AMD GPU on my Early-2011 Quad-Core i7 17" MBP, even if i do not need it (90 percent of the time). So i looked for another solution, and found gfxCardStatus (based on a MacRumors project, IIRC). gfxCardStatus is just an application (no kernel extensions) which communicates with the kernel via userspace (vs. kernelspace) IOKit calls. I've activated the Intel HD 3000 IGP, and the sudden logouts do no longer happen.
Hope this helps you a bit.
Yeah, it is a known problem with the Snow Leopard kernel and the Lion kernel. The code which switches between GPUs is buggy.
Hope this helps you a bit.
My crash stack trace is different though:
Code:
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff89c19320 slab_alloc + 373
1 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff89c1919b magazine_alloc + 332
2 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff89c26872 CA::Render::LayerNode::update_frame_transform() + 140
3 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff89c25aa8 CA::Render::Updater::prepare_layer0(CA::Render::Updater::GlobalState&, CA::Render::LayerNode*, CA::Render::Layer*, CA::Render::Updater::LocalState0&, unsigned int) + 1399
4 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff89c26b5f CA::Render::Updater::prepare_sublayer0(CA::Render::Updater::GlobalState&, CA::Render::Updater::LocalState0&, CA::Render::Layer*) + 120
5 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff89c2622d CA::Render::Updater::prepare_layer0(CA::Render::Updater::GlobalState&, CA::Render::LayerNode*, CA::Render::Layer*, CA::Render::Updater::LocalState0&, unsigned int) + 3324
6 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff89c1b488 CA::Render::Update::add_context(CA::Render::Context*, CA::Render::Layer*, CA::Transform const*) + 1172
7 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff93521289 CGXBeginSurfaceLayerUpdate + 554
8 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff93520fa6 _CGXPrepareCoreAnimationUpdateState + 301
9 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff9345efbe CGXUpdateDisplay + 873
10 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff93457cbd _CGXRunTimerPass + 439
11 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff9346a10d CGXRunOneServicesPass + 161
12 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff93473a0f CGXServerLoop + 165
13 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff93940ada CGXServer + 1069
14 WindowServer 0x0000000107f99f31 main + 9
15 WindowServer 0x0000000107f99f20 start + 52Not sure if this is the same issue.
Likely.
The kernel communicates with non-kernel code and processes (such as the WindowServer). And AFAIK only the kernel communicates directly with the WindowServer. So the only source for corrupt/wrong data, is the kernel (or one of the loaded kernel extensions). I doubt that it has something to do with ATI/NVIDIA kernel extensions, because it happens on many different hardware configurations and hardware generations (which need hardware specific graphics card drivers).
I have Boom (the volume adjuster app) installed, so I don't know if it's the same app you guys are talking about. At any rate, since my installation of Lion or Boom, this started happening, though with less frequency now.
At first, I thought I may have hit the logout key sequence, but now i know it's not me. It's extremely devastating if you are working on something because you lose your work. Someone REALLY needs to fix this.
At first, I thought I may have hit the logout key sequence, but now i know it's not me. It's extremely devastating if you are working on something because you lose your work. Someone REALLY needs to fix this.
Yeah, it is a known problem with the Snow Leopard kernel and the Lion kernel. The code which switches between GPUs is buggy. My temporary solution was to the disable automatic graphics card switching in the Energy Saver preferences. This helps, but this activates the AMD GPU on my Early-2011 Quad-Core i7 17" MBP, even if i do not need it (90 percent of the time). So i looked for another solution, and found gfxCardStatus (based on a MacRumors project, IIRC). gfxCardStatus is just an application (no kernel extensions) which communicates with the kernel via userspace (vs. kernelspace) IOKit calls. I've activated the Intel HD 3000 IGP, and the sudden logouts do no longer happen.
Hope this helps you a bit.
My MacBook Pro doesn't have the ability to switch between graphics cards without logging out, so that won't be the issue. My discreet graphics card is fried (factory defect) by the way, but I never ever switch to it so it's impossible for the system to make any use of it.
Some applications, like Apple Aperture and QuickTime Player X can switch between the graphics cards, even if your model does not support automatic switching. gfxCardStatus uses the same mechanism.
Yeah, it is a known problem with the Snow Leopard kernel and the Lion kernel. The code which switches between GPUs is buggy. My temporary solution was to the disable automatic graphics card switching in the Energy Saver preferences. This helps, but this activates the AMD GPU on my Early-2011 Quad-Core i7 17" MBP, even if i do not need it (90 percent of the time). So i looked for another solution, and found gfxCardStatus (based on a MacRumors project, IIRC). gfxCardStatus is just an application (no kernel extensions) which communicates with the kernel via userspace (vs. kernelspace) IOKit calls. I've activated the Intel HD 3000 IGP, and the sudden logouts do no longer happen.
Hope this helps you a bit.
THANK you. Seriously. I have been trying to track down this problem for over a YEAR. If you're ever in Gainesville, let me knowdrinks are on me.
Ok, I've vented about this issue before and it still hasn't been fixed. This started happening w/ Lion and never w/ SL.
I need to vent again because right when I was confirming payment for a flight, it logged me out. I had to call the carrier and my CC company to make sure it did/didn't go thru. Ugh. WTF! They gotta fix this.
I need to vent again because right when I was confirming payment for a flight, it logged me out. I had to call the carrier and my CC company to make sure it did/didn't go thru. Ugh. WTF! They gotta fix this.
I am also having this exact same issue... usually when i am doing something intensive with a lot of windows open.
I am also using 10.7.2 anyone got any ideas?
never happened in snow leopard.
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I have with both lion and sl, so irritating, I think, I am quite sure that is that this is hardware related. I am finally sending my air for service
So there is no way to prevent that from happening? As my discreet card is faulty, it should NEVER be used by my system since it causes very serious issues. I have disabled it but if OS X just randomly decides to use it regardless, what can I do?