Lion abruptly logs out multiple times per day

Unless anyone else has any better suggestions the only way I can think of narrowing it down would be to install Lion only onto a new partition or external drive.

Boot from that and prove that Lion works. Next add one of your non Apple apps and see how it goes. Repeat until offender found. Of course it may not be that simple - it could be a conflict between two of your non Apple apps that is causing the logout.

Another thing to try is to go to the manufacturers web sites and see if they explicitly support Lion - maybe you have some upgrades required?

Regards,

Colin R.

I know it's only been a week since you posted this - but were you able to find the culprit of this? Any solution?

I seem to be having the same problem, although not as frequent as you mention you do.

Out of the apps you mentioned, there's only a few that overlap with what I was also running when my MBP has logged out, and asked me to log back in with my password, which are the following :

• Safari
• Mail

I've had other apps running as well, but none of those seem to overlap with what you had running.

Anybody have a solution to this? How do we diagnose the problem?

I have a feeling it might be the fact that the computer runs out of RAM, and then the OS forces an automatic log out but I'm just speculating at this point.

I'd love to be able to check out a problem report or something similar to diagnose the exact culprit - unfortunately I have no idea how to do that. Anybody point me in the direction to get this done?

Thanks for the help.

Interesting.

1. There is a new 10.7.1 update available in the Software Update so definitely get that - I have a feeling it might remedy the issue.

2. I switched back to Google Chrome from Safari as my default browser and I haven't had the log off issue since. This is despite the fact that I've continued to run the same apps as before.

Same thing here.

I have 2 macs.

1. iMac 24" (2 years old)

2. MacBook Air 11" (Just 1 month old)

Both of them have this issue. Running only Safari and Notes.

iMac seems to do this 2 times per day, Macbook Air just did it once.

By the way, on MacBook Air I have 10.7.1 update installed.

Any idias?

On MacBook Air it happens when I've tryed to write an E-mail in GMail web interface on Safari.

Maybe it have something to do with Video Card?

Apple, please do something with it, or it will be new BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH as we have on Windows PC.

But the name of it would be: Logout Death with Restore.

I have the same issue. However, mine only occures whenever I resume after suspending or when I do a restart. It allows me to login, and the about 10-15 seconds later it logs me out. After I login the the second time, then I can work for hours with no issues. Again, it only happens right after I resume (open the lid) or when I restart the computer.

I have a MBA 2011 (just a few weeks old) running the latest lion update 10.7.1.

Any solutions yet?

I haven't had the problem ever since I stopped using Safari as my default browser.

same problem here, on a MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz Intel Core i5); random log-outs, not directly related it seems to graphics-intensive tasks; today it also happened after putting the computer to sleep; re-awakening it gave me the log-in screen.

Boom & Punto (English/Russian Auto Correction Program) may cause this problems.

Try to Unistall them if you have either of it.

neither are installed on my laptop

Then I don't know how to help you.

Need to see, if some one from APPLE can help us with this problem.

Sorry.

This just happened to me. I wasn't doing anything unusual; just running the same 7-8 apps I always run. iTunes was in a full Space and when I gestured to it I got the spinball, then a grey screen, and it logged me out.

Running 10.7.2 on a 2.53 GHZ 13" macbook pro (2009).

Having same issue... ;(

Same issue here, when iTunes is in FullScreen and mostely then when I'm updating my iPhone or buying a new app... Could it be that it's related to the two graphic cards I have?