Comment 6 for bug 62838

Ah, no applications opening after you login again in gdm might have an entirely different reason: there might be still processes running from your desktop session after logging out.

If you get this situation again (firefox crash, for example), can you please do:

 - press ctrl+alt+f1, log in, do

     ps ux > stale-processes.txt

 - press alt+f7, try to log into gdm, verify that it hangs, press ctrl+alt+backspace

 - press ctrl+alt+f1, do

    kill -9 -1

 - verify that 'ps ux' only shows two processes ('bash' and 'ps -ux')

 - press alt+f7, log in again and check whether it works

Thank you!