At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:04:04 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 23 October 2009 20:38:27 Manuel Fiorelli wrote: >> 2009/10/23 Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu>: >> > At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:23:21 +0200 Manuel Fiorelli > <manuel.fiore...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I noticed that Gnome doesn't shutdown anymore. When I press >> > >> > I recently had a problem where the evolution data server didn't die >> >> Unfortunately, it doesn't solve my problem. How did you understand >> that it is evolution >> to prevent Gnome from shutting down? > > > Maybe becuase evolution has historically been an unstable piece of complete > shit that crashes often and corrupts thing, so he investigated it first and > got lucky? Or maybe it was because he finds it so useful that he didn't consider not using it and investigated (via lsof | grep bin) what was still around that should be. In my case I think (but am not sure) the situation was that I couldn't unmount /usr so couldn't halt cleanly. I went to single user mode and lsof | grep bin pointed me at esd and evolution-data-server. allan
