Re: [Evolution] Well, That Was Special



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



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