Gome: Panel locks up on selecting Log Out
Warning: Linux newbie! I've re-installed SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional 4 times, but am having various problems (hence the re-installations). The most annoying is that, using the Gnome interface, the Log Out option from the main menu locks the Panel up. The Log Out dialog isn't displayed and the Panel becomes unresponsive. I have to kill off Gome Panel using a terminal, the Panel re-appears and becomes active again, but Log Out locks it up again. On the first 3 installations, it was OK initially but something caused it to suddenly behave like this. On the fourth installation, it behaved this way right from the start - I did an initial log in and then tried to log out straight away, but it locked up. Now I'm getting fed up! Can anyone help? I haven't downloaded any patches or bug fixes yet, as it's a waste of time if I have to re-install from scratch again. Each installation I did was a New Installation. Many thanks, Chris. -- Chris Simon osian@zetnet.co.uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/csimon/
The Saturday 2004-04-03 at 14:06 +0100, Chris Simon wrote:
The most annoying is that, using the Gnome interface, the Log Out option from the main menu locks the Panel up. The Log Out dialog isn't displayed and the Panel becomes unresponsive. I have to kill off Gome Panel using a terminal, the Panel re-appears and becomes active again, but Log Out locks it up again.
I know. I'm using 8.2 and I have that behaviour every single time. I can not log out if I try about one minute of logging in. Some one said you have to start a nautilus window first. Otherwise, it doesn't log out - but leaving it alone for a few minutes will produce the expected result. Also, I can not log out if there is one xterm on some other workspace - so I have to cycle through all workspaces (Ctrl-alt-arrowleft or arrowright), then it logs out. If I get tired of waiting, I simply kill the server: ctrl-alt-backspace, it works every single time. I know that it must be a task that is waiting for something to happen, But I have no idea what for.
I haven't downloaded any patches or bug fixes yet, as it's a waste of time if I have to re-install from scratch again.
This is not windows: reinstalling very seldom works. Do install patches first, there have been tons of them. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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