FC3 upgrade - can't logout!

Simon Andrews simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Tue Dec 7 14:49:08 UTC 2004


Mostafa Z. Afgani wrote:
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> Simon Andrews wrote:
> | I've just upgraded our development machine from FC2 -> FC3.  Whilst
> | everything seems to be up and running I've hit a problem that I can't
> | logout from a gnome session.
> |
> | We've had similar problems on this machine before (PowerEdge 2500), but
> | before we used to get the logout box and then after selecting logout the
> | screen would sometimes freeze for 30secs or so before returning you to
> | the login prompt.  Now I don't even get the logout box appear and the
> | session carries on as it nothing had happened.  The only way to get out
> | is to kill X.
> |
> | I've grepped the running processes for "logout" but get nothing back.
> | Can anyone suggest how I can start to debug this?
> |
> | Cheers
> |
> | Simon.
> |
> I'm not sure if this is related but on FC2 I had to wait for quite a
> while between clicking logout and the box actually appearing.. Have you
> tried waiting for it (give it a minute or two..)

Yes, and I've once managed to get it to show the logout box after about 
5 mins.  This is obviously still a bug, which I'm now bothered enough 
about to try to track down, but need a point to start from!

TTFN

Simon.




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