Slow logout with Gnome, FC3

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Trounson" <gregt at maths.otago.ac.nz>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 9:59 PM
Subject: Slow logout with Gnome, FC3


> Gidday,
>
> I have a clean FC3 install here on an Athlon64 with an ATi Radeon (using 
> standard 'radeon' driver).  Most operations are nice and fast, except for 
> logging out of Gnome.
>
> When I select "log out" and confirm, I'm dropped back to the desktop which 
> I can no longer interact with, and can only watch while the system takes 
> two minutes before bringing me back to the login screen.  I can 
> CTRL_ALT_BKSPACE to kill X, and I can CTRL_ALT_F1 to a terminal during 
> this time.
>
> To state the obvious, memory usage is well below full, no disk activity 
> occurs, and CPU usage is below 10% so it's not actually waiting on any 
> machine resources.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> thanks,
> Greg

I've seen that when name resolution isn't working correctly.  Is the 
machine's hostname and ip address set correctly in /etc/hosts?  Can it 
resolve itself in DNS?

Thomas