Bug#350540: gnome-session: Long delay before Log Out dialog appears

[Hongzheng Wang]

Hi,

The current processes list is:

  PID TTY          TIME CMD
    1 ?        00:00:00 init
    2 ?        00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
    3 ?        00:00:00 watchdog/0
    4 ?        00:00:00 events/0
    5 ?        00:00:00 khelper
    6 ?        00:00:00 kthread
    8 ?        00:00:00 kblockd/0
    9 ?        00:00:00 kacpid
  147 ?        00:00:00 pdflush
  148 ?        00:00:00 pdflush
  150 ?        00:00:00 aio/0
  149 ?        00:00:00 kswapd0
  745 ?        00:00:00 kseriod
  805 ?        00:00:00 ata/0
  809 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
  813 ?        00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
  855 ?        00:00:00 kjournald
 1248 ?        00:00:00 khubd
 1747 ?        00:00:00 pccardd
 2002 ?        00:00:00 kIrDAd
 3080 ?        00:00:00 ipw2200/0
 4470 ?        00:00:00 portmap
 4841 ?        00:00:00 syslogd
 4847 ?        00:00:00 klogd
 4933 ?        00:00:00 acpid
 4939 ?        00:00:00 cupsd
 4962 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 4971 ?        00:00:00 hald
 4978 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
 5003 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 5011 ?        00:00:00 avahi-daemon
 5064 ?        00:00:00 exim4
 5069 ?        00:00:00 inetd
 5079 ?        00:00:00 sshd
 5088 ?        00:00:00 xfs
 5189 ?        00:00:00 Xprt
 5306 ?        00:00:00 atd
 5312 ?        00:00:00 cron
 5330 ?        00:00:00 gdm
 5339 ?        00:00:00 gdm
 5344 tty7     00:00:32 Xorg
 5359 tty1     00:00:00 getty
 5360 tty2     00:00:00 getty
 5361 tty3     00:00:00 getty
 5362 tty4     00:00:00 getty
 5363 tty5     00:00:00 getty
 5364 tty6     00:00:00 getty
 5898 ?        00:00:00 gam_server
 6351 ?        00:00:00 pppd
 8153 ?        00:00:00 udevd
 8383 ?        00:00:00 gnome-session
 8429 ?        00:00:00 scim-launcher
 8433 ?        00:00:00 scim-helper-man
 8434 ?        00:00:00 scim-panel-gtk
 8436 ?        00:00:00 scim-launcher
 8452 ?        00:00:00 ssh-agent
 8455 ?        00:00:00 dbus-launch
 8456 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 8458 ?        00:00:01 gconfd-2
 8461 ?        00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
 8463 ?        00:00:00 bonobo-activati
 8465 ?        00:00:00 metacity
 8467 ?        00:00:00 gnome-settings-
 8478 ?        00:00:00 gnome-panel
 8480 ?        00:00:00 nautilus
 8482 ?        00:00:00 gnome-volume-ma
 8490 ?        00:00:00 gnome-cups-icon
 8492 ?        00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo
 8498 ?        00:00:00 wnck-applet
 8500 ?        00:00:00 mapping-daemon
 8504 ?        00:00:00 notification-ar
 8508 ?        00:00:00 clock-applet
 8510 ?        00:00:00 mixer_applet2
 8512 ?        00:00:00 battstat-applet
 8514 ?        00:00:00 gnome-netstatus
 8516 ?        00:00:00 xterm
 8517 pts/0    00:00:00 bash
 8521 pts/0    00:00:00 ps

I don't know which process should be responsible for this problem.  I
also add a new user account which has not any per-user configuration to
gnome system.  Then I test it under that new account, but the problem is
still there :(

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 10:33 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 30 janvier 2006 à 17:16 +0800, Hongzheng Wang a écrit :
> > Subject: gnome-session: Long delay before Log Out dialog appears
> > Package: gnome-session
> > Version: 2.12.0-4
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > *** Please type your report below this line ***
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Recently, I have encountered an annoying problem when I logout from
> > Gnome.  There is always a long delay before Log Out dialog appears after
> > I click the LogOut button.  But, it seems that it just happens when I
> > try to log out the first time in each gnome session.  That is, this
> > problem disappears after the first try everytime.  I execute the log out
> > command 'gnome-session-save --kill' and find it does delay for several
> > minutes.  But no errors are reported.
> 
> This is certainly caused by an application that doesn't answer to the
> session manager. Which processes are you running at that time?