long wait for log out window

[Angelo Machils]

Angelo Machils wrote:

>>
>>
>> Message: 17 Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:31:11 -0600 From: Jonathan 
>> Berry <berryja at gmail.com> Subject: Re: long wait for log out window 
>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com> 
>> Message-ID: <8767947e050227133133616881 at mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: 
>> text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:12:53 +0100, 
>> Angelo Machils <angelus at sangreal.demon.nl> wrote:
>>
>>>> Hello there!
>>>>
>>>> Since a while (since 2.6.10-1.766_FC3???) I have noticed that when I
>>>> choose 'Log Out' from the window in Gnome (running on FC3 x86-64, 
>>>> fully
>>>> updated) it takes a very long time before the actual window (where you
>>>> can choose either to logout, halt or restart the system) appears. I'm
>>>> talking several minutes here, and during that time I can also choose
>>>> nothing from the menu, but for the rest the system works without a
>>>> fault. Top says the system is pretty much idle, so it's not a
>>>> performance problem.
>>>> Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a known bug?
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards, Angelo
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Hi Angelo,
>> No, I have not seen anything like this.  In fact, I just checked and
>> with updatedb banging on the disk, it only took very little time
>> (almost no delay) to bring up the logout window in Gnome for me
>> (though it took a considerably longer time for the menu to actually
>> pop up to click on logout :)).  I'm running 766_FC3 on x86_64 as well.
>> You can also bring up this dialog with the command:
>> gnome-session-save --kill
>> You might try doing an strace on this to see if you can find where it
>> is hanging:
>> strace gnome-session-save --kill
>> This should scroll by a lot of stuff.  Take note of any places that it
>> hangs.  For me, stuff scrolls by until the dialog comes up.  You can
>> then run it again and direct the output to a file:
>> strace gnome-session-save --kill 2> logout.txt
>> which will put everything in logout.txt so you can post info to the
>> list or see more of what is going on, just remember where you noticed
>> it hang before.  In another terminal, you can also run "tail -f
>> logout.txt" to see what is being printed to the file so you could
>> perhaps run it only once.  If nothing looks obvious, send more info to
>> the list.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>
> Thank you for the reply. Weird thing, when I use the command, there is 
> no waiting for the dialog to popup and also the response to the choice 
> I take in the dialog is immidiate..... Only when I choose it from the 
> menu I experience this delay.
>
> Kind regards, Angelo
>
Seems I spoke too soon :-)

Update:

Sometimes it's immidiate, and sometimes it takes as long as from the 
menu. The strace shows that is stops at:
connect(16, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(16001), 
sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16

When the dialog *does* show up, the same line says:
connect(16, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(16001), 
sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 ETIMEDOUT (Connection timed out)

Kind regards, Angelo