Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome doesn't shutdown

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:04:04 +0200 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 23 October 2009 20:38:27 Manuel Fiorelli wrote:
>> 2009/10/23 Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>:
>> > At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:23:21 +0200 Manuel Fiorelli 
> <manuel.fiorelli@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