Hello,

I have two Linux boxes:
Centos 5.5 64bit
Debian 5 64bit

Doing some X+Gnome testing, so I do startx and gnome "Log Out..." frequently.(the problem shows no matter if I use startx or display manager - so I use startx in this case)
Everything works as it should (X and Gnome) except gnome "Log Out..." - it terminates gnome session no earlier than 2mins after startx, for example:
I run start X, wait 3min, press gnome "Log Out..." - "Log Out..." terminates gnome session immediately as it shoud - no problems here.
But if I do gnome "Log Out..." immediately after startx - "Log Out..." terminates gnome session exactly after 2 minutes (during this time X and gnome are functional). And this is happening on both Linux boxes even they have different X and gnome versions.

Any ideas what is going on ?

(Please do not suggest to do "Ctrl+Alt+Backspace".)

thanks
Vilius

Gnome has a lot of daemons running in the background to handle various events and it can take a while to start them all up when you login. I would think that the programmers wrote the logout program to wait for all of those background processes to start so that they can be shut down properly. To avoid files being corrupted or data being lost or other bad things from happening. You can probably disable some of the daemons so that gnome loads faster. But you will still have to wait for everything to load before it will logout. The only other option is to just zap it with ctrl-alt-backspace.

Yes maybe you right.
But still exact 2min time looks more like timeout than waiting for some daemons to start/stop.
And my gnome installation is very minimal.

V