[Gloucs] Gnome Desktop

[Mick Brooks]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:13:11PM +0100, jim_ashford at lineone.net wrote:

Hi Jim,

> >-- Original Message -- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:04:56 +0000 From:
> >Paul Broadhead <lug at twinmoons.clara.co.uk> To: Gloucestershire LUG
> ><gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk> Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Gnome Desktop
> >Reply-To: Gloucestershire LUG <gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> >
> >
> >jim_ashford at lineone.net wrote:

<snip - Gnome logout takes an age>

> > If you can have, you run
> > up a process monitor (like top) to see what's going on?
> 
> Nope not a thing happens, I can move the curser, but that's it, I just
> have to sit and wait.  Jim

Unless there's somebody around who knows about this specific Gnome
problem, I think Paul is on the best track here. We should see what is
running while you have to wait. I imagine that running top in an xterm
might not be very useful, since that would be closed while shutting
down.

Maybe we could try running it in another virtual tty:

* Hit <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <F2> to switch to the second virtual tty

* login to the prompt that will appear (I hope...)

* run "top"

* Hit <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <F7> to get back to your Gnome/X session (if it's
	not there - try different function keys)

* Try shutting down Gnome as usual

* Quickly hit <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <F2> to get back to top

* Take notice of anything near the top the display, particularly anything
	using a large %CPU or %MEM that disappears once Gnome has exited

* Let us know about anything you notice!

Apologies if this is all obvious and you've tried it, but it wasn't
clear that you'd checked this from your reply to Paul.

I hope this helps,

-- 
Mick Brooks
michael.brooks at physics.ox.ac.uk