Slow logout with Gnome, FC3

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Greg Trounson wrote:

> I've since verified that this happens irrespective of the user (root 
> or otherwise) and the video driver ('radeon', 'vesa', or 'vga').
>
> While I haven't entirely reached the bottom of this problem my 
> colleague has identified a workaround:
>
> When someone logs out of a GNOME session, it tries to read the 
> ~/.gnome2/xsession file.  If this file is not populated (just the 
> presence of an empty file with this name is NOT enough), then the 
> session will stall for 2-3 minutes on logout.  (Curiously, killing X 
> at this stage also kills gdm.  This doesn't happen at any other time.)
>
> If you click "Save session" in the logout dialogue, the session will 
> still freeze, but it will be the last time.  All subsequent 
> login/logouts go without a hitch.  It is this process that creates and 
> populates the ~/.gnome2/xsession file.
>
> Unfortunately this means that for every user, they are guaranteed at 
> least one stalled logout.  I tried putting a template in /etc/skel, 
> but the file has many references to absolute home directory paths (eg 
> /root), and it doesn't seem to parse the "~" ("current user home 
> directory") character.
>
> This strongly points to a bug in GNOME.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
This is very interesting, indeed... What about referencing the shell 
variable {$HOME} instead of '~/'? Will work basically the same 
regardless of the user, and since it is a shell variable, its value 
should be readable whenever called.