On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 18:49 -0500, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > On Sat, 2016-08-13 at 23:55 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Evo will not quit. After several minutes, a dialogue comes up, > > > something like "do you want to wait or force quit". > > > > Usually that means it's waiting on something that won't happen. As Ralf > > says, the alert is probably from your desktop environment rather than > > Evolution, but the underlying cause is likely to be that Evo is waiting > > to hear from a server that isn't responding for some reason. Any time > > this has happened to me I find that forcing quit and restarting solves > > the problem. It's annoying but it seems to happen a lot less than it > > used to with older versions. > > I've had this happen many times with Evo. More often than not, when I > try to cancel an internal process which is taking way too long, such as > index generation, Evo just hangs, and neither the internal process nor > the program itself will close down. I generally just do a killall -9 on > it, which is kind of crude, but effective, and it runs fine when I > restart it. > > This has been going on for years, and I more or less take it for > granted. I like Evolution a lot, so I stick with it and tip-toe around > the known issues.
I'm using POP accounts only and in the past I needed to "kill" Evolution that often, that I added a menu entry that runs "evolution --force-shutdown" and after that starts Evolution automatically. Since a few Evolution versions back, I don't need this feature at all, since I don't experience this kind of issue anymore. As already pointed out, maybe force-shutdown isn't available for all builds of Evolution, I anyway wouldn't start killing directly by a SIGKILL, consider to at least try a SIGTERM first. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
