Re: gnome-session weirdness - was: I can't log out from gnome

[John N S Gill <jng renre com>]

I have been having this problem on my machine at home.  For me, I 
only got the slow logins the first time after I re-boot.

I think I'm closing in on the problems.  I started up X using:

startx >log 2>&1 

to collect the error messages.

Afraid I haven't got the details here, but basically gnome was having 
trouble talking to the display (there were lots of messages about 
magic cookie authentication errors).  Anyway,  I looked at my 
.Xauthority file and there was some old junk in there, so I just 
deleted it and re-booted and everything was OK.  

I've been messing around with /etc/hosts quite a bit (trying to get 
ppp, fetchmail, sendmail, gnome all happy + I think a side effect of 
this is that I created some confusing entries in .Xauthority.   

Hope that helps.

John


> Hi,
> the problem reappeared, this time I have some more resolution:
>  
> 1. the first time I log in to gdm after the computer is booted takes
> looooots of time - like a minute. RedHat banner (it is a RH6.0 system) is
> displayed almost immediately, long wait, enlightenment progress bar appears,
> long wait, esd makes its ugly noise, looong wait, background appears, still
> longer wait, panel appears, lots of time passes, gmc starts.
>  
> 2. no application can connect to gnome-session: the gnome-session-capplet
> does not start, I can't call save-session (it says that it cannot connect to
> gnome-session)
>  
> 3. of course I can't log out properly - the panel makes some noise, but the
> log out dialog does not even appear.
>  
> 4. After I kill gnome-session, the consecutive logins are quick.
>  
> I thought the problem was xscreensaver, because when I removed it, the
> problem seemed to disappear, but yesterday it reappeared again.
>  
> The machine IS NOT on the network, no network services are running, so it is
> not a network problem.
>  
> I was messing with my sound card (I am writing some kind of real-time audio
> effect processor). Maybe it could have done something bad to my setup,
> although I can't imagine what bad it could do.
>  
> Any suggestions ?
> J. Marcin Gorycki
> mgo@olicom.dk <mailto:mgo@olicom.dk>  
> 
> 
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