I can confirm this problem on Ubuntu Hardy. It was a fresh install (about a week ago) and I have installed all updates since.
I also seem to remember that Gnome logged out normally after the session in which I installed keytouch. keytouch seems to spawn a new keytouchd process whenever I click "OK" or "Apply". If I manually kill all but one of these keytouchd processes Gnome will log out normally; if there are more than one it doesn't. This also works if I kill the processes after initiating the Gnome- Logout: I click on logout, the panel etc. are closing but the desktop background remains. I then switch to the console and kill the keytouchd processes one after another; the moment I kill the last but one of them the logout continues and I am back to the GDM-Login. I tried removing my ~/.keytouch2 directory, and when I logged back in no keytouchd process was running an I could log out normally. Something else I found interesting: I started keytouch from the shell and set a command for one of the keys; when I hit apply the following was written to the shell: "keytouchd: Kein Prozess abgebrochen" ("keytouchd: No Process killed"). So it seems keytouch TRIES to kill old keytouchd processes when you change the settings; of course if there are none it can't kill any. BUT I also needed to kill (or killall) the processes with "-9" or else they wouldn't be killed - could that be the problem here? Apart from killing the keytouchd processes a "killall keytouchd-launch" also "allows" Gnome to log out; however if I issue this command from within Gnome it logs me out all by its own, i.e. killing keytouchd- launch seems to kill Gnome (and I go back to GDM Login). Strangely, adding either "killall keytouchd-launch" or "killall -9 keytouchd" to my /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default does not solve the problem here. Next, I tried disabling /etc/X11/Xsession.d/55keytouchd_launch (there is only one), by adding "disable-session-keytouch" to /etc/X11/Xsession.options. Naturally the extra keys don't work if I do this, but I can switch them back on by launching keytouch and clicking "Ok". If I do this more than once I still get extra keytouchd processes; in the absence of keytouchd-launch however, they don't seem to block logout... Just in case anyone is still struggling with this problem, for the moment I use the following workaround: 1. disable /etc/X11/Xsession.d/55keytouchd_launch by adding "disable-session-keytouch" to /etc/X11/Xsession.option 2. save the following script somewhere on your harddisk (e.g. ~/bin/) keytouchd-relaunch --- Begin file contents --- #! /bin/bash killall -9 keytouchd keytouchd & --- End file contents --- 3. make the file executable 4. add it to the Start-Programs of your gnome session Excuse my rather lengthy post - but I hope the information provided may be useful for finding the real problem. David -- [hardy] keytouch blocks logout https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186713 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs