Re: [gdm-list] Logout script does not always complete -- Note

[Jaap Winius <jwinius umrk nl>]

Quoting Jaap Winius <jwinius umrk nl>:

> On the other hand, today I was thinking that this might have  
> something to do with dependency based booting, so I added  
> .legacy-bootordering (an empty file) to the /etc/init.d/ directory  
> to disable it. And, it worked!

Actually, it didn't work, because I had stupidly run that last test  
with the 10-second sleep commented out. When I uncommented it and ran  
the test again, the script failed.

However, I was on the right path... kind of. The same test succeeded  
with a 5-second sleep, as well as with 6, 7 and 8 second sleeps. It  
finally failed at 9 seconds.

When I ran these same tests again, but without the  
.legacy-bootordering file, the best I could do was 5 seconds, with the  
test failing after a 6-second sleep.

Since even 5 seconds should be more than enough time for my logout  
script to run, I have to conclude that, either there's an important  
difference that I've overlooked between my test setup and the actual  
workstations, or something is causing my logout scripts to take too  
long to complete. Right now I figure the latter is the more likely  
explanation.

Cheers,

Jaap