Apps hanging around.

[Luis Montes]

Looks like I can close the apps when clearing those env variables.
This worked for both wesnoth and tuxpaint.

Any chance going against an external ldap server for 
authentication/authorization has anything to do with this?
(just in case sound requires certain groups)
Luis


Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Luis Montes wrote:
>
>   
>> It looks like watchdog or xterminator will help for the cases when apps 
>> are still there on after logging out.
>>
>> But right now I can't even close some windows while still logged in.  On 
>> a fully patched 8.04, if I can't even seem to close SDL apps like 
>> tuxpaint or gcompris.
>> There is nothing being logged that I can see.
>>     
>
> I recall an issue like this being reported before.  One workaround was to
> disable sound.  It seemed like the problem related somehow to releasing
> pulseaudio.
>
> Could you try starting it from the command line and see does the problem
> repeat?  Then, set
> 	export ESPEAKER=
> 	export PULSE_SERVER=
>
> and see does the issue go away.  If it doesn't, maybe disable sound on a
> thin client (in lts.conf) and try again.  Obviously you want sound, but
> this will hopefully help track down cause of the issue.
>
> Gavin
>
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