Desktop apps not exiting on logout

[tedlane]

This appeared some weeks ago, but I've ignored it until now.

When I logout, certain applications are not exiting.  Further, the CPU usage goes to 100% until I kill the old instances.  Some of the apps may look a bit suspect under LXDE but they work alright apart from this issue.  Any ideas?

The apps are: (from top after logout)

top - 14:39:17 up 21:20,  1 user,  load average: 3.16, 1.22, 0.55
Tasks: 130 total,   5 running, 125 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  3.0%us,  0.8%sy,  0.1%ni, 95.8%id,  0.2%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   1023704k total,   380044k used,   643660k free,     3828k buffers
Swap:  3020184k total,        0k used,  3020184k free,   243440k cached

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 7992 bb         5   0 33924  14m 7768 R   49  1.5   0:24.03 volti
 7999 bb         6   0 31372 8324 5996 R   49  0.8   2:05.58 parcellite
23085 bb         7   0 30528 4304 3552 R   49  0.4   0:23.73 notify-osd
 7930 bb         6   0 46364  24m 7084 R   48  2.5   4:51.66 net_applet
 7863 bb         1   0  5000  376  220 S    0  0.0   0:01.67 gpg-agent
 7963 bb         1   0  5932 1868 1536 S    0  0.2   0:01.39 menu-cached     


(Ignore the cpu figure in the grab, trust me it is running at 99-100%!)

ted

[djohnston]

Looks like volti is the holdup. I see it's a GTK+ app for audio volume. That one's not part of the stock LXDE install. Anyway, after you're logged in, try shutting volti down from the lxpanel, then start it from a terminal with volti &. It may need to be started in daemon mode, similar to volti -d &. I don't know. I've never used it. See if there are error messages. According to Synaptic, "it goes nicely with gnome-alsamixer". Is that installed?

It may be that notify-osd is waiting from some output from volti to display on the screen. Just a guess, so far.

[tedlane]

Thanks djohnston,

I tried all that, down to and including all references to volti in the autostarts.  But it still happens with the net-applet which I believe is LXDE.
I'll create a new user and see if it happens there.
ted

[tedlane]

Rats!
It's got something to do with the user 

"Same" setup in new user and the issue doesn't arise.
ted

[Neal ManBear]

Rename /home/<you>/.config to ~/.config.bak. Log out / log in. Does the issue persist?

[Texstar]

Rats!
It's got something to do with the user 

"Same" setup in new user and the issue doesn't arise.
ted

Did someone say rats? 

[Neal ManBear]

Rats!
It's got something to do with the user 

"Same" setup in new user and the issue doesn't arise.
ted

Did someone say rats? 

ROFL!!!!!

[tedlane]

OK, renamed .config and added volti and other desktop apps back in.  Problem gone away.
Now going through  old and new .config dirs, diff'ing and adding them back one by one.  What fun. 

This is going to take some time.  If I do find the culprit in the next 2 days I'll post and close.  Otherwise (I have to go interstate next week) I'll just leave this one "open" for a while.

cheers
ted