I've posted this question to the Gnome users list, but so far no luck, so I thought I'd mention this here. A little while ago, I noticed that I was no longer able to log out from my GDM. I'm running the default GDM (2.16) that comes with CentOS, and this problem started up right about the same time that I updated to the 53.1.4 kernel (from the 8.1.15 version). As I've posted here recent;y, I was unable to use yum to install the 53.1.6 kernel until I rebooted to the 53.1.4 default kernel (I run a modified kernel that has NTFS support built in as a module with read/write support.) However, I was not only unable to log out using the System->LogOut applet, I was also unable to shut down or reboot using the System->Shutdown applet. This has also occurred since rebooting to the 53.1.6 stock kernel and my own 53.1.6 kernel with NTFS. What happens is that I either click on the Log Out or Shutdown applet, and if I click on the relevant button (Log Out, Shutdown or Reboot), the applet freezes. I can't cancel it or change options (in the case of the shutdown applet), but if I click on the close window button (upper right hand corner), after a moment or two, the "not responding" window pops up and I can kill the applet. (Thsi also happens if I just let the applet time out - it freezes then, too.) The only way I have been able to log out is to kill my gnome-session. To reboot, I can run "reboot" in a terminal window, or log out (by killing the gnome session) and then click on the "Reboot" link at the bottom of the login screen. I confess that I have downloaded and installed a few third-party packages, but I got most of them via rpmforge, CentOS (Fedora) Extras and SourceForge. The only thing that I find really suspicious in all of these is that I tried to install k9copy and it refused to install due to too many missing parts, but I did manage to install a number of KDE pieces - could they be interfering? Also, IIRC, the problem began before that, so I'm in a quandary here. Part of the problem is that I rarely log out, so I'm not 100% sure of exactly when this started or what I last installed that might have triggered it. (BTW, how do I view that?) Suggestions? Wisdom? Not too abrasive, please.... :-) Thanks. mhr
On Jan 25, 2008 5:28 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote:> > (BTW, how do I view that?) >Never mind, I figured that out. I didn't see anything too suspicious, but here are the last few: kernel-debuginfo-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.nx Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:55:10 AM PST kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.nx Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:54:21 AM PST kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.nx Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:54:12 AM PST kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:38:47 AM PST libicu-3.6-5.11.1 Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:38:43 AM PST libicu-3.6-5.11.1 Fri 25 Jan 2008 11:38:27 AM PST kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.nx Wed 23 Jan 2008 09:22:46 PM PST kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.nx Wed 23 Jan 2008 09:14:23 PM PST kernel-headers-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 Wed 23 Jan 2008 08:03:26 PM PST kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5 Wed 23 Jan 2008 07:46:58 PM PST dkms-2.0.17.5-2.el5.rf Wed 23 Jan 2008 01:48:05 PM PST vobcopy-1.1.0-1.el5.rf Tue 22 Jan 2008 10:46:10 AM PST kdebase-3.5.4-15.el5.centos.1 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:06:22 AM PST kdebase-3.5.4-15.el5.centos.1 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:06:11 AM PST kdnssd-avahi-0.1.3-0.1.20060713svn.fc6 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:06:08 AM PST kdelibs-3.5.4-13.el5.centos Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:06:00 AM PST libraw1394-1.2.1-1.fc6 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:05:57 AM PST lm_sensors-2.10.0-3.1 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:05:55 AM PST libsysfs-2.0.0-6 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:05:55 AM PST pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:05:54 AM PST avahi-qt3-0.6.16-1.el5 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:05:54 AM PST samba-common-3.0.25b-1.el5_1.4 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:05:52 AM PST arts-1.5.4-1 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:05:38 AM PST htdig-3.2.0b6-9.0.1.el5_1 Tue 22 Jan 2008 12:05:36 AM PST gpg-pubkey-f9e06114-4526152e Mon 21 Jan 2008 11:54:21 PM PST mpg123-1.1.0-1.el5.rf Mon 21 Jan 2008 02:56:36 PM PST libtool-ltdl-1.5.22-6.1 Mon 21 Jan 2008 02:55:58 PM PST xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.1.1-48.26.el5_1.5 Sun 20 Jan 2008 06:04:38 PM PST xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.1.1-48.26.el5_1.5 Sun 20 Jan 2008 06:04:38 PM PST xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.26.el5_1.5 Sun 20 Jan 2008 06:04:36 PM PST libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1 Sat 19 Jan 2008 11:03:49 AM PST hsqldb-1.8.0.4-3jpp.6 Sat 19 Jan 2008 11:03:46 AM PST libXfont-1.2.2-1.0.3.el5_1 Sat 19 Jan 2008 11:03:26 AM PST httpd-2.2.3-11.el5_1.centos.3 Wed 16 Jan 2008 11:20:55 PM PST autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.2 Mon 14 Jan 2008 05:00:10 PM PST libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:01:09 PM PST fontconfig-devel-2.4.1-7.el5 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:01:06 PM PST e2fsprogs-1.39-10.el5_1.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:01:04 PM PST libxml2-devel-2.6.26-2.1.2.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:01:01 PM PST libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:59 PM PST e2fsprogs-devel-1.39-10.el5_1.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:58 PM PST fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:52 PM PST e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-10.el5_1.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:52 PM PST postgresql-libs-8.1.11-1.el5_1.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:51 PM PST libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:50 PM PST postgresql-libs-8.1.11-1.el5_1.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:49 PM PST fontconfig-2.4.1-7.el5 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:39 PM PST libxml2-2.6.26-2.1.2.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:38 PM PST e2fsprogs-libs-1.39-10.el5_1.1 Sun 13 Jan 2008 01:00:20 PM PST tzdata-2007k-1.el5 Fri 11 Jan 2008 12:38:51 PM PST AdobeReader_enu-7.0.9-1 Sat 05 Jan 2008 12:51:49 AM PST mhr