Re: [Evolution] Reconnecting to "<my-account-name>" (cancelling)

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

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