idle gnome 1.4 session dies

["Haselden, Michael" <Michael Haselden COMPAQ com>]

On a RedHat 7.2 system, it seems that after a gnome session is left idle (over night/over a weekend) that the session dies. Below is the output from the xsession error log. Any help with this error would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Michael Haselden
email: Michael Haselden compaq com

------------------ Start xsession errors -----------------------------------------
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkOptionMenu'
Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkoptionmenu.c: line 248 (gtk_option_menu_set_history): assertion `
option_menu != NULL' failed.
** WARNING **: Can't find panel, putting applet on the first one
** WARNING **: Can't find panel, putting applet on the first one
Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_disconnect_by_data(): could not find handler containing data (0
x818B5A0)
Message: Successfully registered `OAFIID:nautilus_factory:bd1e1862-92d7-4391-963e-37583f0daef3'
Message: Successfully registered `OAFIID:Bonobo_Moniker_std_Factory'
Message: Successfully registered `OAFIID:nautilus_factory:bd1e1862-92d7-4391-963e-37583f0daef3'
Message: Successfully registered `OAFIID:nautilus_factory:bd1e1862-92d7-4391-963e-37583f0daef3'
Message: Successfully registered `OAFIID:nautilus_factory:bd1e1862-92d7-4391-963e-37583f0daef3'
Message: Successfully registered `OAFIID:nautilus_factory:bd1e1862-92d7-4391-963e-37583f0daef3'
Message: Successfully registered `OAFIID:nautilus_factory:bd1e1862-92d7-4391-963e-37583f0daef3'
Message: Successfully registered `OAFIID:nautilus_factory:bd1e1862-92d7-4391-963e-37583f0daef3'
Message: Successfully registered `OAFIID:nautilus_factory:bd1e1862-92d7-4391-963e-37583f0daef3'

** WARNING **: connection to FAM died
xterm:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server "ecp6-6:10.0"
xterm:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server "ecp6-6:10.0"
Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to ecp6-6:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to ecp6-6:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
xterm:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server "ecp6-6:10.0"
xterm:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server "ecp6-6:10.0"
Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to ecp6-6:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to ecp6-6:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 17703, errno = 0
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 17682, errno = 0

** WARNING **: 2 scalable icons still left when destroying icon factory
------------------ End xsession errors -----------------------------------------

Also a few minutes after the session dies, I sometimes see this in the /var/log/messages file: 

Apr 24 17:16:09 ecp6-6 gconfd (username-17771): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Apr 24 17:16:09 ecp6-6 gconfd (username-17771): Failed to give up lock on XML dir `/home/username/.gconf': Failed:  Didn't create lock file `/home/username/.gconf/%gconf-xml-backend.lock/ior' (creator pid 3077, our pid 17771; assuming someone took our lock
Apr 24 17:16:09 ecp6-6 gconfd (username-17771): Failed to release lockfile: Failed:  Didn't 
create lock file `/home/username/.gconfd/lock/ior' (creator pid 3077, our pid 17771; assuming someone took our lock