Re: Gnome hang on logout / kill.

On Feb 12, 2008 11:09 PM, Jason Cipriani <jason.cipriani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am running Gnome 2.20.3 on a Gentoo machine. I just recently updated
from a previous version of Gnome (I do not remember what the previous
version was but it was at least 4 or 5 months old). I do not use a
graphical log in. I am not logging in to a remote machine, this is all
local.

Since updating, when I kill the X server with Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc, or when
I log out properly via System -> Log Out, everything disappears
(including the mouse cursor) except for the desktop background, and
then it gets stuck. I know the machine is not completely hung, because
if I press Ctrl+Alt+Del the system will shut down properly and reboot
-- although the desktop background will remain on the screen until the
reboot actually happens. When it is in this state, I can't switch to
text terminals, or do anything at all (including Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc). I've
given it at least 5 minutes to exit but it does not (I remember having
issues logging out with the old version where gconfd or something
would stay running for a long time after the gnome desktop ended -- I
do not know if this is related; that didn't cause me problems logging
out but it did cause me problems if I tried to restart gnome again too
quickly before gconfd had died).

This problem happens 100% of the time. It does not seem to be a
general X problem, because I can use other desktops and window
managers (and just X by itself) with no issues. This problem did not
happen at all before I updated Gnome.

I am not familiar enough with Gnome to know where to start looking.
What I found on Google either didn't match my description or was a
problem with remote connections. Nothing in /var/log or my user dir
jumped out at me either. What is a good starting point for
investigating? Please let me know if you need any other system
information, I'm not sure what is relevant.


I am having a similar, but not identical, problem on CentOS 5.1 with
Gnome 2.16.0 - when I try to log out or shutdown/reboot, the
logout/shutdown applets hang when either a button is selected or the
applet times out. The only way I can log out is to kill the
gnome-session process, and to reboot or shutdown, I either have to run
'shutdown' or 'reboot' in a terminal window, or "log out" (i.e., kill
the session process) and then click on the shutdown or reboot link on
the login screen (at least those still work).

I've mentioned this here before, but haven't found (or seen) any answers yet.

Ritesh has been working with me on and off about this for a fair
amount of time, but we haven't found anything that works (yet). (I
confess, I haven't tried his last suggestion - soon....)

mhr
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