[RESOLVED] on shutdown a number of apps are not responding

[ineuw]

In the attached image, this app never responds to a shutdown, and there are times that are as many as 7 apps don't respond. What can I do to correct this?

Screenshot from 2018-10-17 20-26-18.png

[xenopeek]

No idea why so many applications could be stuck. AT-SPI is for accessibility. Are you using anything like desktop zoom, on screen keyboard, screen reader or such?

You might try disabling AT-SPI though I'm hard pressed to explain how AT-SPI could cause all those other applications you refer to get stuck. Seems like something else must be the root cause. But you could try. It seems to me at best this would remove AT-SPI from the stuck applications list at shutdown, not fix the actual problem or solve the issue for those other applications.

You need to both disable the autostarter AND mask the user bus service, or it will get started anyway. First, make sure your autostart override directory exists with this command:
mkdir -v ~/.config/autostart
Then you can run this command to disable the autostarter:
cat /etc/xdg/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop <(echo "X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false") > ~/.config/autostart/at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop
Finally also mask the user bus service:
systemctl --user mask at-spi-dbus-bus.service

[ineuw]

xenopeek, I am sure that these issues directly relate to the video problem, about which I last posted, I use none of the software mentioned and my take on the issue is old hardware attempting to incorporate new software and a lack of video memory. I will keep you posted and thanks for the help. A very interesting solution.

[milomak]

thanks this seems to have helped me disable at-spi on my debian install as well