Why does OS X automatically logout my user?

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Published on 2011-01-08T13:23:38Z Indexed on 2011/01/08 13:55 UTC
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I have a new MacBook Air set up with filevault.

In the Security preference pane I have "Require password 1 hour after sleep or screen saver begins" enabled, but the "Logout after 60 minutes of inactivity" is disabled.

When I leave the computer on overnight I manually lock the screen (from the Keychain status menu bar, which I enabled via the Keychain Access preferences).

Alas, in the morning I find that instead of a locked screen I see the login window, after my user was logged out with all applications terminated... (e.g. Firefox thinks it previously crashed when I launch it).

This type of behavior only started after I enabled Filevault.

Why is this happening? How do I prevent such auto-logout?

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