Bug#497274: Unresponsive shutdown/restart/logout

[Cesare Leonardi]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Please provide the list of running processes when this is happening 
> (log in to the console and type "ps auxw"), the contents of 
> ~/.gnome2/session (if any), the list of files in /etc/xdg/autostart 
> and /usr/share/autostart (if any).

Your request was very helpful, because has given me some input on how to
debug the problem. And i think i've found the cause.

The guilty seems to be the file ~/.gnome2/session.
I've tried to analyze the problem with 3 user accounts: two existing one 
and a fresh new one. I've found that the new account doesn't show the 
problem.
Same thing if i rename the session file to something else: i can
logout/reboot/shutdown correctly.

I haven't ever modified this file by hand but i remember that in some
Gnome version ago, there was a "Save profile" checkbox on every logout,
and i remember that i've enabled that.
I verified that both faulty account have that flag on (under System ->
Preferences -> Sessions -> Session options) but the new account have
the flag off.
So i tried to disable that flag on these two accounts and now i can
logout correctly from one of the two. In the other account i've also
experimented the button "Remember Currently Running Applications" but
that made the logout problem persist even without the save profile flag.
I've corrected the problem renaming the file ~/.gnome2/session.

Now i've renamed the session file and reenabled the remember flag: the 
logout/reboot/poweroff works correctly and a new session file was created.

I've attached the initial session file of my account and the other file 
you asked for.
The file "bug.user1.ps-auxw.txt" shows the process situation after i've
said to logout to my just opened session (and the command was ignored).
The /usr/share/autostart directory is not present in my system.

Regards.

Cesare Leonardi.
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