Re: [Evolution] --force-shutdown doesn't close all Evo processes on 2.32

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 15:32 -0600, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 09:52 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I noticed this morning that my system was running low on memory and the
> > main culprit seemed to be e-calendar-factory at about 1.5G (!).  So I
> > used "evolution --force-shutdown" to try and clear up all the Evo
> > processes but it didn't work.  It tried to close evolution (which it
> > couldn't find because it wasn't running), but didn't shutdown any of the
> > associated backends.
> >
> > Is this expected behaviour?
>
> It's expected behavior but not quite the desired behavior.
>
> See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590245
>
> The D-Bus services still need some kind of shutdown method so they can
> terminate gracefully when asked, rather than just up and killing them
> like we used to under Bonobo.  We already do this for Evolution.

Sorry, I don't understand.  Are you saying that the various factories
should have been terminated?  If not, then surely the '--force-shutdown'
option has rather lost its potency.  What is the approved way of killing
the D-Bus services now?

P.