Zaam Wu <zaa...@zoho.com> wrote: > > I am not sure whether this is the right group to post this > message. But the issue does happen after a Gentoo @world update. > > After login into console, 'startx' will launch Xfce4 > desktop. Everything works like a charm. > > A few days ago: > > 1) @world update; > > 2) reinstall Emacs (USE="gtkgtk3") to USE="athena Xaw3d -gtk > -gtk3". > > If I logout or shutdown through Xfce4 panel "Shutdown" or "Log > Out", xfce "Shutdown" or "Lot Out" will be delayed for almost 2 > minutes. During this period, Xfce4 desktop stands still and do > nothing. > > When I click 'Shutdown" or "Log Out" again, an error message pops > up: > > Failed to run action "Shut Down" > Session manager must be in idle state when requesting a > shutdown > > Interestingly, this issue usually is accompanied with Emacs daemon > editing. If I does not lanuch Emacs daemon to edit file (no daemon > process in the whole login session), Xfce4 shutdown or logout > normally without delay. > > Googled around and a few posts suggest 'rm > ~/.cache/session/xfce4*'. But still does NOT solve > my problem. >
I had the same problem for at least half a year. My "solution" was to kill the X session when I did wanna logout. I don't use a Display Manager, so I switched to the console from where I started the X session (Ctrl+Shift+F1) and pressed Ctrl+C. After I read your mail I did a test and logged out via the XFCE logout panel (didn't tried this for about 2 or 3 months). It was a really big surprise to me that it works without any delay. I should mention that I never used or installed Emacs. Nevertheless I had a delay of about 1 minute before logout finished. During this time one of the CPU cores had some load and memory usage increases. I could watch this in the gkrellm monitors when composite was enabled. When composite was disabled then the X display was frozen during the delay. I'm sorry that I can't help you. I still don't know what caused the problem, but now it's gone. Maybe some update fixed it, but dunno. I'm using gentoo stable with these exceptions: xfce-extra/xfce4-composite-editor ~amd64 xfce-base/xfwm4 ~amd64 xfce-base/xfce4-panel ~amd64 xfce-base/xfce4-settings ~amd64 xfce-base/xfce4-session ~amd64 xfce-base/xfdesktop ~amd64 xfce-base/xfce4-appfinder ~amd64 xfce-base/libxfce4util ~amd64 xfce-base/libxfce4ui ~amd64 xfce-base/xfconf ~amd64 xfce-base/garcon ~amd64 xfce-base/thunar ~amd64 -- Regards wabe
