Evolution takes 3+ minutes to shutdown

[Chris]

On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 16:56 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 08:23 -0500, Chris wrote:
> > Has anyone who is running Gnome noticed that when shutting down
> > Evolution it will take several minutes for this to happen? This is
> > Evolution 3.10.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Are there background processes
> > that it it is killing first or what? This is just a recent problem as
> > when I first started running Ubuntu back at the end of July it would
> > shutdown almost immediately. I also noticed a few weeks back that at
> > shutdown it would ask me for the passwords for all my accounts. I don't
> > even use EVO to poll of mail, I use fetchmail instead. The continued for
> > a few days then stopped.
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> Sorry no I'm not running gnome because I became disgusted with what was
> done to it. Evolution was constantly taking an age to start up and shut
> down. Sometimes with my net book it never started up at all. Totally
> unacceptable.
> 
> I just tested the Evolution shut down on this machine and it was more or
> less instant, certainly less than half a second. Starting it up again
> was several seconds.
> 
> I don't think your problem is the fault of Evolution, I reckon it's the
> desktop. I'm using Mate.
> 
> Dave

Thanks Dave, I'll take a look at some different desktops whenever I get
the chance.


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Chris
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