After logging out of GNOME and returning to the GDM screen I press
<ctrl>+<alt>+<f1> to switch to a console.  I then issue the command:

  % ps awux | grep sigwait

The 'oafd' process is always running.  I have to use the 'killall'
command to terminate it. Here the list of processes. 

root      705  0.1  0.1  2356 1312 tty1     S    07:51   0:00 login -- sigwait
sigwait   799  1.0  0.2  3712 2200 ?        S    07:51   0:00 oafd --ac-activate
--ior-output-fd=9
sigwait   839  0.7  0.1  2524 1456 tty1     S    07:52   0:00 -bash
sigwait   876  0.0  0.0  2592  744 tty1     R    07:52   0:00 ps auxw
sigwait   877  0.0  0.0  1620  592 tty1     S    07:52   0:00 grep sigwait


Here is the info from the command:

  % rpm -q -i oaf-0.6.5-ximian.3

Name        : oaf                          Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 0.6.5                             Vendor: Ximian, Inc.
Release     : ximian.3                      Build Date: Sat 21 Apr 2001 07:06:17
AM PDT
Install date: Thu 07 Jun 2001 10:15:52 AM PDT      Build Host: cul-de-sac.ximian.com
Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: oaf-0.6.5-ximian.3.src.rpm
Size        : 684446                           License: GPL/LGPL
URL         : ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/unstable/sources/oaf/
Summary     : GNOME Object Activation Framework (for GNOME components)
Description :
OAF (Object Activation Framework) provides the activation mechanism
for GNOME components.  It is a replacement for GOAD in the GNOME 2
platform.



------- Additional Comments From mjs@noisehavoc.org 2001-08-08 01:14:22 ----

You're right, it should exit after a while. In fact, this problem has been
reported before.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46727 ***



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:18 -------