GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 555795
gnome-session fails to shut applications down
Last modified: 2009-03-25 01:42:38 UTC
While running gnome-session 2.24 under Ubuntu Intrepid beta, I noticed that some applications aren't being shut down when ending the session. Notable examples are Firefox, gnome-terminal and OpenOffice but a number of the programs normally started by the session also seem to be affected. I tried recompiling the Ubuntu package and deactivating all patches except those affecting the build system, but the problem didn't go away. I'm attaching a log file that I obtained by running gnome-session with the --debug flag. It looks to me that gnome-session believes that all programs terminated normally and terminates itself. The programs, however, are still running and die only because their connection to the X server gets broken. The messages at the end of the log show this. I'm rating this bug as major since it can potentially cause user data loss.
Created attachment 120338 [details] Output of gnome-session --debug
Created attachment 120339 [details] The .xsession file used for the session Just in case this is useful...
I fixed this in trunk. 2.26.1 should have the fix. We were not sending the Die message to xsmp clients...