[CentOS] Gnome Logouts -- are very slow or they hang -- 2nd post

Mon Aug 1 12:33:29 UTC 2005
BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net>


--- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 20:24 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
> > 
> > --- Sudev Barar <sbarar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 7/31/05, BRUCE STANLEY <bruce.stanley at prodigy.net> wrote:
> > > > When ever I try to logout of a Gnome session,
> > > > it seems to hang but if I wait about 4-5 minutes it
> > > > will usually logout, although I have had it hang
> > > > a couple of times (never logs out).
> > > 
> > > Had similar problems in FC3 and the culprit seemed to be rhn-applet.
> > > Solved it by doing:
> > > #rpm -e rhn-applet
> > > 
> >
> > Hi Sudev!
> > What exactly is the purpose of 'rhn-applet' ?
> 
> rhn-applet is the little check-mark (or exclamation point) beside the
> date that tells you whether you need updates.  It usually works OK, but
> can hang up.
> 
> I use it on all my installs without any issues, but there have been
> problems with it on all platforms in the past (on RH like OSs).  To be
> honest, I don't usually log out unless I am rebooting after a new kernel
> install on any of my machines :) ... but I don't have any issues that I
> can see.
> 
> --
> Johnny Hughes
> 
> 

Any ideas as to what might be causing it to hang up?
This is a fresh install of Centos 4.1 with nothing
special done to it.

Gnome logout take about  4-5 minutes to complete (if it doesn't hang).