An update on this: it is xorg-x11-drv-synaptics causing the bother.
To verify this, you can build a live cd from the F11 release repo,
without enabling updates. Put it on a USB stick, boot off it, and you
can log in and out with no trouble. Then
yum update xorg-x11-drv-synaptics
and reboot. Now try logging in and logging out.
I'm now trying using the F12 xorg-x11-drv-synaptics to see if that
solves the problem.
What a complete waste of three days...
James
On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 18:01 +0000, James Heather wrote:
Can anyone else confirm that building the standard F11 live cd,
against the current F11-updates repo, results in something that hangs
when you try to log out of GNOME?
Attached are the F11 live cd kickstart files. The only changes I've
made are to enable the updates repo (and an inconsequential slight
increase to the partition size).
I've done the following:
1. Create the 64-bit live cd
2. livecd-iso-to-disk -> usb stick
3. Boot up
4. Log in
5. Log out
6. Sob for mummy
Would be interested to know if others have the same issue. I presume
this is a gdm bug, but it is very hard to track down since it's a
system hang. (It's not actually a complete system hang, it's just that
keyboard and mouse are unresponsive; but one can log in over the
network.)
This is killing me. I've spent several days trying to bugfix my custom
stuff, only to discover that it's not my bug at all, and it's in the
standard F11 build.
James