[X4U] Strange Screen Saver and Shutdown Behavior

[John Newhoff]

Any chance you have a screen saver hot corner defined? I have the 
lower left hand corner configured as the hot corner and occasionally 
when I'm mousing around I accidentally mouse into that corner and the 
screen saver kicks in.

John

>During the last couple of weeks, my 10.3.8 system has been randomly 
>kicking into screen saver mode.  I could be typing, moving the 
>cursor, reading a webpage, etc.  All of a sudden, the screen saver 
>will start without a reason.  I set the screen saver to start after 
>5, 10, or 15 minutes of inactivity.  The only thing I can note so 
>far is that shorter the inactive minutes set in the System 
>Preference, this strange behavior increases and vice versa.
>
>Worst yet is after the system has been running for (estimated) 
>several hours, there is no way of shutting it down or restarting. 
>Choosing the options in the Apple Menu does nothing.  The usual 
>control-eject keystroke doesn't even bring up the shut down / 
>restart panel.
>So far, the only suspicious thing that I have found is this entry in 
>the system.log:
>Apr  8 22:03:23 localhost diskarbitrationd[90]: loginwindow 
>[262]:30211 not responding.
>And, the only way to safely shut down the computer is through the Terminal.
>
>To be clearer, during the first few hours just after the start up of 
>the system, shutting down / restarting the computer functions 
>normally.
>I've already tried repairing the permissions and made sure that the 
>kiosk mode is not enabled.
>
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