FC3 upgrade - can't logout!

Michael Scottaline nbhs2 at i-2000.com
Tue Dec 7 14:48:54 UTC 2004


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?
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Check to see if nautilus is running (even in the background; try "top"). 
  If it is, KILL it and then try to log out.
Best,
Mike

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