Evolution : oh my god !

vailima vailima at icontech.com
Mon May 9 14:06:28 UTC 2005



The only fault I can see with EVOLUTION so far is that it will NOT import ASCII files or for that matter, from well known and used data base software(s). 

To me this appears to be nothing less than an attempt to lock up the market BUT there is a way ... if you inspect the EVOLUTION data files.


>
>Subject: Re: Evolution : oh my god !
>   From: "Senectus ." <senectus at gmail.com>
>   Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 10:55:11 +0800
>     To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
>On 5/9/05, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
>> > Ok not the same problem then..
>> > I did a quick search on the evolution bugzilla and got only three hits
>> > for 2.2.1.1 :-P
>> 
>> Yeah, this certainly means that Evo is perfect ! ;-)
>> 
>> > non of them anything like your problem.. if you can replicate it try
>> > submit a report...
>> 
>> I didn't do anything special to "trigger" it, I was simply typing an
>> e-mail to this list. And I bloody hope I will NOT be able to replicate
>> it, I hope it will NEVER do it again. It was real scary ! :-/
>> Certainly a show stopper, critical rated bug, if Hoary were still in
>> development, but alas, it's over now. So all I can do is hope that it
>> will never do it again... brrr ! :o(
>> 
>If it can be repliceted and it happens often enough then they will
>submit a fix I have no concern about that.
>Failing that next time (IF) it happens again. run this in the command
>line and it will "kill" Evolution for you:
>evolution --force-shutdown
>
>That command was a saviour for me with the other bug
>
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