Hello, I am working on a fairly well-known ongoing problem where you have a slow logoff if connected wirelessly to a Samba share. You get the message 'CIFS VFS: No response ...' and it takes about 2 minutes for the laptop to shutdown. Apparently it happens because Network Manager closes down before the CIFS mounts are unmounted. It will probably be some time before this gets fixed at the root cause but there is a good work-around for Gnome. It entails running a process in the Gnome session that waits for the 'save-yourself' event (see below). Is there a similar closing-down event that can be hooked into with an XFCE session ? Would anyone be able to supply the few lines of code required in main() below ? I could then test and, if successful, post the solution back into the Ubuntu forums article below. #!/usr/bin/env python #Author: Seamus Phelan # <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8451352#post8451352">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8451352#post8451352</a> #This program runs a custom command/script just before gnome shuts #down. This is done the same way that gedit does it (listening for #the 'save-yourself' event). This is different to placing scipts #in /etc/rc#.d/ as the script will be run before gnome exits. #If the custom script/command fails with a non-zero return code, a #popup dialog box will appear offering the chance to cancel logout # #Usage: 1 - change the command in the 'subprocess.call' in # function 'session_save_yourself' below to be what ever # you want to run at logout. # 2 - Run this program at every gnome login (add via menu System # -> Preferences -> Session) # # import sys import subprocess import datetime import gnome import gnome.ui import gtk class Namespace: pass ns = Namespace() ns.dialog = None def main(): prog = gnome.init ("gnome_save_yourself", "1.0", gnome.libgnome_module_info_get(), sys.argv, []) client = gnome.ui.master_client() #set up call back for when 'logout'/'Shutdown' button pressed client.connect("save-yourself", session_save_yourself) client.connect("shutdown-cancelled", shutdown_cancelled) def session_save_yourself( *args): #Unmount those CIFS shares! retcode = subprocess.call("sudo /etc/init.d/umountnfs.sh", shell=True) if retcode != 0: #command failed show_error_dialog() return True def shutdown_cancelled( *args): if ns.dialog != None: ns.dialog.destroy() return True def show_error_dialog(): ns.dialog = gtk.Dialog("There was a problem running your pre-shutdown script", None, gtk.DIALOG_MODAL | gtk.DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT, ("There was a problem running your pre-shutdown script - continue logout", gtk.RESPONSE_ACCEPT)) if ns.test_mode == True: response = ns.dialog.run() ns.dialog.destroy() else: #when in shutdown mode gnome will only allow you to open a window using master_client().save_any_dialog() #It also adds the 'Cancel logout' button gnome.ui.master_client().save_any_dialog(ns.dialog) #Find out if we are in test mode??? if len(sys.argv) >=2 and sys.argv[1] == "test": ns.test_mode = True else: ns.test_mode = False if ns.test_mode == True: main() session_save_yourself() else: main() gtk.main() Regards, David Collins