Evolution fails to open

[D Knip]

Hi:

I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing to 
start.  Any ideas?

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Did you try to manually kill the processes?
 ps -elf |grep evo

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Hi:

I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing
to 
start.  Any ideas?

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[John Hearns]

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, D Knip wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing to 
> start.  Any ideas?

'killev' and if that doesn't work 'oaf-slay' can help with Evolution 
problems.

But I can't comment as to why you are seeing these problems.

[Dan Tucny]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 19:32, D Knip wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing to 
> start.  Any ideas?

Always a favourite, try killing the esd process (if it exists)...

Dan

[Clifford Snow]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:32, D Knip wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing to 
> start.  Any ideas?

use evolution --force-shutdown to kill evolution.  evolution spans other
processes.  Just killing evolution doesn't fix the problem.

BTW - Ximian has released a newer version of evolution, 1.4.5 I think.

Clifford

[Chris Kloiber]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:32, D Knip wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing to 
> start.  Any ideas?

Not on the default path, but it still works.

/usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/killev

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 21:46, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:32, D Knip wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing to 
> > start.  Any ideas?
>
> Not on the default path, but it still works.
>
> /usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/killev

Excellent - just a symlink away from being in the path.

Example: ln -s /usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/killev /usr/bin/killev

Works great and just in time too.

Cheers,

Chris
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[Clifford Snow]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 06:23, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 21:46, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:32, D Knip wrote:
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > > I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing to 
> > > start.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Not on the default path, but it still works.
> >
> > /usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/killev
>
> Excellent - just a symlink away from being in the path.
>
> Example: ln -s /usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/killev /usr/bin/killev

Or you can just use
evolution --force-shutdown

[Kevin B]

> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 06:23, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 21:46, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 14:32, D Knip wrote:
> > > > Hi:
> > > >
> > > > I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then
> >
> > refusing to  start.  Any ideas?
> > > Not on the default path, but it still works.
> > >
> > > /usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/killev
> >
> > Excellent - just a symlink away from being in the path.
> >
> > Example: ln -s /usr/libexec/evolution/1.4/killev /usr/bin/killev
>
> Or you can just use
> evolution --force-shutdown

Check bugzilla 105715

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=105715

You can control it with 'killall -9 evolution-wombat' but it is
a reported bug.

Kevin B

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 21:39, John Hearns wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, D Knip wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing to 
> > start.  Any ideas?
>
> 'killev' and if that doesn't work 'oaf-slay' can help with Evolution 
> problems.

Attention with oaf-slay -- to misquote Bruce Willis: "oaf-slay is a
broadsword" -- it will kill evolution, nautilus, ... -- whatever happens
to be running at the moment that uses oaf.

Nils

[Nils Philippsen]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 04:36, Clifford Snow wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 11:32, D Knip wrote:
> > Hi:
> >
> > I am stuck rebooting with evolution crashing on exit and then refusing to 
> > start.  Any ideas?
>
> use evolution --force-shutdown to kill evolution.  evolution spans other
> processes.  Just killing evolution doesn't fix the problem.
>
> BTW - Ximian has released a newer version of evolution, 1.4.5 I think.

... which doesn't solve the problem. It is suspected that it is ORBit2
or even glibc-related:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102554

Nils