When I logout, my system will seem to start the logout process - panel disappears, icons (usually) disappear, the desktop sometimes goes blank, but then it becomes completely unresponsive. No disk activity, no CPU activity. I can’t <ctrl>+C, <ctrl>+<alt>+<del> or <alt>+<F2>. There’s no response.
My environment:
VMware 5.0.2 (linux is guest on windows7 host)
openSUSE 12.3 Tumbleweed
xfce
May be related to this:
[opensuse-xfce] no login manager (LXDM) when switching users](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-xfce/2013-03/msg00012.html)
Are you using LXDM as Login Manager?
Then try something else like xdm, kdm or gdm.
You can set that in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager (of course your choice has to be installed first, so I would recommend to try xdm since that should be installed by default)
You’re right, my issue is nearly the same, although my display manager was “lightdm”, not “lxdm”.
Changing the display manager to “xdm” fixed the logout problem, but it’s kinda ugly so I installed “lxdm” and am using that now.
It seems a little odd that in your reference post, he fixed the issue by removing lxdm, while I can fix it by changing to lxdm.
Either way, thank you for your speedy and efficient help.