Gnome Logout Hangs?

[Ray Strode]

Hi,

> I tracked this down more and it happens with metacity too on my intel
> graphics laptop. After logging out, if I go to a text console and kill
> just gnome-session, the logout finishes and gdm comes back up.
>
> Does this "fix" work for anyone else having the problem? It seems that
> since this apparently is not happening for everyone, it must be
> something I'm running that causes gnome-session to hang. I checked and
> pulseaudio is not running so I'm don't think it is the culprit.

Do you have vino ("Remote Desktop") installed ?  I think there's a bug
on one of the F8 tracker lists that mentions some weird interaction
between vino and gnome-session on logout.  I haven't looked into it
yet.

--Ray