[arch-general] Hanging on log out

[Doug Newgard]

On 2014-04-30 10:34, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Been having a problem in recent weeks that I'm unable to fix or even 
> diagnose.
> 
> When I log out of my desktop, the machine just hangs with a blank X
> windows screen.  (I.e., black screen with mouse cursor pointer.)  I'm
> able switch to a console and successfully issue the "sudo poweroff"
> command from there.  But the system never brings me back to an X login
> screen.
> 
> I'm not sure what package is causing the problem here.  I run XFCE
> with LXDM as my DM.  My initial guess was that this is an issue with
> xfce4-session, since a) I see a zombie "sh" process under
> xfce4-session when I look at the process list, and b) when I kill
> xfce4-session I successfully get back to a login screen.  But I also
> see that the xfce4-session package hasn't been updated since
> September, so I'd think it's unlikely that that's what's causing the
> problem.
> 
> Anyone got any pointers in the right direction for me on this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> DR

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40110