Spontaneous logout while in Snow Leopard

I'm pretty sure it's related, at least for me, to something that happens when I send e-mail with Entourage 2004.

I am experiencing the same problems with Microsoft Excel. Bluescreen, spontaneous logout!

There have been a number of threads about this issue. The centre of it all seems to be rosetta. I had continual problems with word and Entourage until I moved to Office 2008. No log outs since then.

Glad (?) I'm not the only one. This has happened to me mostly in Eudora, but often in Photoshop CS2. I've been trying to troubleshoot and it seems like it's not related to:
1. having a firewire hd connected
2. having an external monitor connected
3. having a usb keyboard/mouse connect

It may be keypress related...I'm almost scared to use cmd-w to close windows and I click the close window button whenever possible. But just typing any key in Eudora and Photoshop CS2 can cause the spontaneous logout. And there's no rhyme or reason...sometimes it'll happen several times in a row...sometimes I'll go almost an entire day with no logouts.

My problem seems to be fixed by upgrading to MS office 2008. Now I have no software on my machine that requires Rosetta. It sounds like those having same problem during use of other software may all be using other older software (CS2 etc.) That suggests that it is likely to be Rosetta.

MacPro 2x2.8 Quad 10.6 (build 10A432)
Network, wired ethernet
Connected to external monitor via mini display port.
All software patches up to date.

I also am experiencing the random logouts.
Blue Screen, Login Screen, - Login is as if nothing happened.
Noticed that when I went to reconnect to my servers that they were highlighted as I had previously randomly chosen my mount points. (like it remembered what volumes were there before "event"?)

Updated Observation

*"It may be keypress related...I"*

I did not even install Rosetta and am using the most current versions of CS4 and Microshaft Enoturage,word,excel (though 04' is installed) So am not convinced it is a specific piece of software

I too think that when this has happened I have been depressing or manipulating a quick key to perform something.. I use so many keyboard shortcuts that some times I accidentally overlap sequences and do things like launch FrontRow on accident.. maybe something to this.. going to dig into the keyboard and universal access prefs again..

thanks all

This happened to me twice yesterday. Using Excel 11.3.3, both times when I used a key command (once was copy, once was save) - I was logged out & sent to the login screen.

Hate to dash people's hopes of narrowing this down to shortcuts, but this happens to me when I am entering text into Excel cells. 😟

Same problem here. MacBook Pro, usb keyboard and mouse, external monitor. Crashed once using PowerPoint (while lecturing to 125 students), once using MS Word - both apps part of MS Office 2K4. Just adding my 2cents in hopes of a fix.

Same issue here. The whole system spontaneously logged out to blue screen and then came back asking for my password to log back in. I was using Microsoft Excel 2004 at the time - I wondered if it was some key-presses that trigged it?

I've got some crashes this morning:

I'm with 10.6.1 on MacPro and was using Backup 3.1.2 (374) when crash started, files found at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports:

(I've modified the crash files names to be sorted in the right order (put date and time at first in the file name):

2009-09-12-090856 WindowServerlocalhost.crash

2009-09-12-090913 Backuplocalhost.crash

2009-09-12-090916 WindowServerlocalhost.crash

2009-09-12-090924 bluedlocalhost.crash

2009-09-12-090925 WindowServerlocalhost.crash

2009-09-12-090940 WindowServerlocalhost.crash

Within 44 sec SL logout and ask for logging 4 times ...it was very fast and since then nothing happened, crossing fingers ...will see by tomorrow again with backup ... but after the last crash I restarted backup and it worked flawlessly, I don't think that Backup is responsible for this, WindowServer is crashing so nothing work anymore.

"blued" is the Mac OS X bluetooth daemon, and I don't have any bluetooth on MacPro...

Had this happen once while exporting Quicktime from Keynote. Running 10.6.1 without any peripherals. Connected to the Internet via Airport. I thought maybe it was related to overheating somehow but I don't think so.

This morning Backup worked very well, no more logouts, here under beginning of 2009-09-12-090856 WindowServerlocalhost.crash file:

Process: WindowServer [104]
Path: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/WindowServer
Identifier: WindowServer
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]

Date/Time: 2009-09-12 09:08:54.286 +0200
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.1 (10B504)
Report Version: 6

Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Application Specific Information:
abort() called

Thread 0 Crashed: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff86cc5ff6 __kill + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff86d67072 abort + 83
2 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff883a75d2 _tcf0 + 0
3 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff883a5ae1 _cxxabiv1::_terminate(void (*)()) + 11
4 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff883a5b16 _cxxabiv1::_unexpected(void (*)()) + 0
5 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x00007fff883a5fd6 std::bad_cast::what() const + 0
6 libGLProgrammability.dylib 0x00007fff8865a064 TPPStreamCompiler::newNodeFromOperand(ParseOperand*) + 84
7 GLEngine 0x0000000113e070a2 gleFreeShaderObject + 69
8 GLEngine 0x0000000113d242c2 gleDeleteHashNameAndObject + 121
9 GLEngine 0x0000000113e06fa9 gleFreeProgramObject + 371
10 GLEngine 0x0000000113deac13 gleUnbindDeleteHashNameAndObject + 146
11 GLEngine 0x0000000113d77031 glDeleteObjectARB_Exec + 318
12 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff87422892 CA::OGL::gl deleteshader(CA::OGL::GLShader*, CA::OGL::GLShader*, void*) + 31
13 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff872176a8 x hash_tableforeach + 75
14 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8725c901 CA::OGL::GLContext::purge_shaders() + 123
15 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8725c877 CA::OGL::GLContext::purge() + 17
16 com.apple.QuartzCore 0x00007fff8725c850 CARenderOGLDestroy + 18
17 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a888d6 CGXGLAccelComposite + 1606
18 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a87552 CGLayerComposite + 242
19 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a635b9 CGXUpdateDisplay + 7042
20 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87aba7f3 CGXFlushWindowList + 709
21 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87aba52b CGXFlushWindow + 33
22 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87aba49c _CGXFlushRegionInline + 204
23 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87aba3c6 _XFlushRegionInline + 176
24 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a9457d CGXServices_server + 108
25 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a9423a connectionHandler + 220
26 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a766c1 CGXPostPortData + 175
27 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a764cb CGXRunOneServerPass + 451
28 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a737e6 CGXRunOneServicesPass + 357
29 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a7c3ea CGXServerLoop + 139
30 com.apple.CoreGraphics 0x00007fff87a47bd6 CGXGetRootAdminCredentials + 0
31 WindowServer 0x0000000100000f29 main + 9
32 WindowServer 0x0000000100000f18 start + 52

If interested I can post more.

IMHO OSX doesn't crash but only Window Server, so no proposal to send files to Apple, how to send crash report files to Apple ?

Ditto me on all the reported issues - Excel 2004 crashes SL with or without external gear on my late 2007 MBP 15".
I don't have the option of abandoning Rosetta as I use several weird programs daily for which there are no replacements, like GretagMacbeth i1 Share. So it looks like my only option is to go back to Leopard.
Fortunately I made a good Time Machine backup just prior to "up"grading, but I also have a Windows partition which I cannot clone because WinClone doesn't run under SL (insert sound of gnashing teeth here).
My question is if I restore from TM after booting from the Leopard install disks, will TM wipe my Windows partition, or just the Apple part of the HD?