Re: [Evolution] Well, That Was Special

[Donald Henson <wepin wepin com>]

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