--- 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).