cannot logout - sometimes.

[Robin Laing]

Hello,

I have had this issue in F30 but just upgraded to F32 hoping it would be 
fixed but now it is much worse.

I use multiple accounts to isolate personal stuff from work so I usually 
have two or three different accounts open at any one time.  Some 
accounts I only open for a short period of time and then close them.

Lately I have been having more issues with logging out and the window 
just gets to a point I cannot do anything in it.  Mouse pointer moves 
but no right or left click menus or anything else.

Tonight, it happened with only one account open and went to close that 
as I was testing a weird issue with the mouse in that one account.

I have to go into a different account or terminal window and close all 
the processes that are still running.

I have to kill this process before the session will finally close.

root        9191  0.0  0.0 171972 19764 ?        SL   Jun18   0:00 
/usr/libexec/sddm-helper --socket 
/tmp/sddm-auth21ca2b7f-c9cc-4127-afa5-b1d0bf27cbec --id 5 --start 
/usr/bin/startplasma-x11 --user robin

It has happened with all the accounts I have on this machine.  It can be 
very frustrating.

I am suspecting it is related to something that is waiting but I don't 
know what as I have just logged in for less than a minute and logged out 
and it has occurred.

I have tried this but it doesn't fix the problem.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User#Kill_user_processes_on_...

This is a list of what is running according to top for the user after 
trying to "Leave".

  43039 xxxx      20   0   21596  11816   9584 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.39 
systemd
   43053 xxxx      20   0  179196   6524      4 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 
(sd-pam)
   43121 xxxx      20   0  268728   4324   3908 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.01 
dbus-broker-lau
   43122 xxxx      20   0    6240   3996   2708 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.17 
dbus-broker
   43216 xxxx      20   0  376096  41736  35524 S   0.0   0.1   0:00.26 
kglobalaccel5
   43221 xxxx      20   0  156240   5704   5128 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 
dconf-service
   43262 xxxx       9 -11  344116  15844  12220 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.80 
pulseaudio
   43270 xxxx      20   0  384548  24352  19708 S   0.0   0.1   0:00.30 
abrt-applet
   43281 xxxx      20   0  340884   7016   6436 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 
agent
   43304 xxxx      20   0  642980  34648  30336 S   0.0   0.1   0:00.13 
kactivitymanage
   43310 xxxx      20   0  305316   6956   6288 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.01 
at-spi-bus-laun
   43322 xxxx      20   0  268468   3592   3300 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 
dbus-broker-lau
   43327 xxxx      20   0    5148   2968   2708 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.01 
dbus-broker
   43339 xxxx      20   0  343388   8076   7272 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 
gvfsd
   43384 xxxx      20   0  322024  15428  13428 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.04 
mission-control
   43465 xxxx      20   0  321776  20908  18260 S   0.0   0.1   0:00.10 
kscreen_backend
   43486 xxxx      20   0   17228   5568   4808 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 
gconf-helper
   43487 xxxx      20   0  121492   7008   6252 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 
gconfd-2
   43519 xxxx      20   0  160880   7844   7088 S   0.0   0.0   0:00.06 
at-spi2-registr
   45603 xxxx      20   0  453980  49044  41564 S   0.0   0.1   0:00.23 
kdeconnectd


As I close processes, gconf-helper doesn't want to close and goes into a 
zombie state.

   43486 xxxx      20   0       0      0      0 Z   0.0   0.0   0:00.00 
gconf-helper

As I am using a different approach this time by using "top" to show the 
running processes, I noticed that pulse audio goes to 100% as I am 
killing proccesses.

   43262 xxxx       9 -11  344116  15848  12220 R 100.0   0.0   4:22.43 
pulseaudio

Once I killed pulse audio, gconf-helper closed as well.

One thing I noticed on this last one that was strange, the plasma 
session opened on the same terminal (TTY3) that I already had a terminal 
session open in.  I have never seen that before.

I hope someone can help me find this issue.  I don't even know where to 
start to file a bug report.

Robin