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

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

[Zaam Wu]

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.

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

[wabenbau]

Zaam Wu <zaamwu@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

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wabe

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

[wabenbau]

<wabenbau@gmail.com> 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.

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Regards
wabe

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

[Zaam Wu]

<wabenbau@gmail.com> writes:


> Manager, so I switched to the console from where I started the X 
> session (Ctrl+Shift+F1) and pressed Ctrl+C. 
Yeah, that's at least a 'feasible' way.

> 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 am not sure if Emacs causes the xfce4 session too buby to
logout/shutdown. But it might imply some X apps prevents xfce4
shutdown instantly.
> 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
Not installed on my system.
> 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
For all those pkgs under 'xfce-base/*', my system uses stable
version 'amd64'.

Maybe your newer version solved that 'delay' issue.
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>

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