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Bug 357539 - Sometimes logout does not log out, but saves session
Sometimes logout does not log out, but saves session
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gnome-session
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.16.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Session Maintainers
Session Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-09-24 23:41 UTC by Filip Miletic
Modified: 2007-06-15 20:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.15/2.16


Description Filip Miletic 2006-09-24 23:41:19 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Selecting 'logout' from the Gnome's menu produces a dialog box informing the user that the session settings have been saved. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Select log out


Actual results:
Sometimes, the 'You session is saved' dialog box appears instead of the user being logged out.

Expected results:
The user should be logged out

Does this happen every time?
No, it hapens sometimes, at irregular intervals. 

Other information:
Comment 1 Tom Tromey 2006-10-04 18:05:39 UTC 
Sounds like a dup of bug #344476.
I suppose there must be a race in there somewhere :(
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2007-05-09 20:15:45 UTC 
What applications are running on your desktop?
Comment 3 Vincent Untz 2007-06-15 15:44:09 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!
Comment 4 Filip Miletic 2007-06-15 16:44:27 UTC 
GAIM, Thunderbird, Firefox, Azureus, Eclipse, Emacs, gedit, xchat, ghostview, evince, inkscape, gimp, skype, google earth, ICAClient.

Not all at the same time though.


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Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2007-06-15 16:48:48 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> GAIM, Thunderbird, Firefox, Azureus, Eclipse, Emacs, gedit, xchat, ghostview,
> evince, inkscape, gimp, skype, google earth, ICAClient.

Ah, Skype is known to block the logout. See bug 344476. That's most probably the reason you're seeing this. Unfortunately, we can't do anything: someone needs to fix Skype (and other programs behaving like this).
Comment 6 Filip Miletic 2007-06-15 20:32:06 UTC 
I am kind of not persuaded by your explanation.  

Namely, sometimes it happens that, when I select 'logout', I don't get logged out but instead I get a dialog saying 'your session is saved'.  

I can imagine that Skype would prevent logout, but I cannot imagine Skype leading GNOME to misinterpret my 'logout' command as 'save session'.

Further, I tested logouts with Skype on, and indeed I don't get logged out.  But no dialog box, the command just gets ignored.

HTH.
Comment 7 Vincent Untz 2007-06-15 20:36:41 UTC 
In fact, the "save session" dialog issue was another thing that already got fixed.