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Without sounding rude, are you sure it's at the login screen and not the unlock screen?
not rude. yeah it's a login screen as when I input my password all apps that I was using are closed, blank new session.
OK, thanks.
I guess it's worth confirming if it's been a logout or a reboot as well. If you open a terminal and type "uptime" does the time match when you booted up or after you left it alone for a while?
Check the output of:
dmesg -T
and have a look through:/var/log/messages
I would be focussing on errors, warnings and/or terms like "reboot, shutdown, logout, timeout, idle, etc." to try to narrow it down what is happening and when.