Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce2 logout/shutdown delayed for 2 minutes

[wabenbau]

 wrote:

> Manager, so I switched to the console from where I started the X 
> session (Ctrl+Shift+F1) and pressed Ctrl+C. 

Sorry. Meant Ctrl+Alt+F1.

--
Regards
wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Xfce2 logout/shutdown delayed for 2 minutes

[wabenbau]

Zaam Wu  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