Re: [Evolution] Folder confusion

[Douglas Summers <ajgringo619 hotmail com>]

On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 06:05 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 04:22 +0000, Douglas Summers wrote:
> > I had to use sudo because they wouldn't close
>
> Did you try to SIGTERM or to SIGKILL the processes?
>
>   ps aux --forest
>
> might provide a pointer
>
> My setup allows to get rid of all processes by either running
>
>   evolution -q
>   pkill evolution
>
> or by running
>
>   evolution --force-shutdown
>
> So a simple SIGTERM does the trick for my setup. Depending on your
> setup, it might not be that easy, but if it fails even with a SIGKILL,
> then "sudo" is still not the way to go. If you can't kill the processes
> or if thy should get automatically restarted, there's probably a good
> reason for this behaviour.
I'll give these suggestions a try if it happens again; thanks for the
help.