Re: [Evolution] Well, That Was Special

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 09:53, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 08:50, Donald Henson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 07:12, Dan Winship wrote: 
> > > > > > did not start up. I logged off/on again. Same result. Then I used
> > > > > > (gasp!) a Windows technique. I rebooted the system. This worked.
> > > > > > Evolution came back up like there had never been a problem. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Did you try "evolution --force-shutdown"?  My guess is that you had
> > > > > some hung evolution process (logging off and logging back on does
> > > > > not necessarily kill all processes).
> > > > > 
> > > > No, I didn't. Where's the evolution --force-shutdown button located?
> > > > I'm joking, of course, but my point is that ordinary users, such as
> > > > Windows refugees, are not going to take the time to learn how to use
> > > > the command line.
> > > 
> > > Fortunately though, we've had no success in breaking Windows refugees
> > > from the habit of rebooting any time something goes wrong, so they don't
> > > need to learn the command-line way. :-}
> > > 
> > > -- Dan
> > 
> > I've only done it twice.  :-)  (It worked both times, though.)
> > 
> > Don Henson
>
> If someone tries to run a second evolution (locally), how about popping
> up a window that says:
>
>   You can only run one copy of evolution at a time.
>  
>  Kill old one and start again     Leave old one and don't run another

That might work if that's in fact the problem. In this case, though, the loop got started due to something I did related to searching an archive folder.

Don Henson