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  1. #1
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    kill not working

    Since upgrading to 12.04, evolution keeps freezing. I have tried the forcequit icon, which does nothing for it. I have tried switching to a new terminal window and running either 'killall evolution -v' or 'kill xxxxx'. Both commands report that the process has been terminated, but that is not the case. Evolution is still running and locked up. I haven't had any other programs lock up, but both kill commands work fine with other programs that are actively running and not locked up, evolution included.

    Why? Why does evolution keep locking up and why does kill not kill?

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    Re: kill not working

    Kill by default sends the terminate signal, which is a request to terminate, allowing the applications to do some cleanup, make backups of files and things like that. If a program has a signal handler for SIGTERM and has completely locked up, it may not respond. In this case, try SIGKILL
    Code:
    kill -9 <ID>
    As to why evolution is freezing, I've got no idea.

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    Re: kill not working

    Code:
    pgrep evolution
    Then use this number for the kill -9 command.

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    Re: kill not working

    Thanks guys. When it locks up again, I will try those. I wish I knew why it kept locking up though. It NEVER did that with 10.04!

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    Re: kill not working

    My evolution locks up, too.

    From my long experience with this problem, -9 works. -1 also works. I use:
    Code:
    pkill -1 evolution

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    Re: kill not working

    Thanks guys... That worked when firefox locked up today. I would really like to know why my system NEVER locked up running 10.04, but when I upgraded to 12.04 it locks up as much as that OS that we are trying to avoid?

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    Re: kill not working

    Hello!

    Did you upgrade or do a fresh installation?
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    Re: kill not working

    Quote Originally Posted by QIII View Post
    Hello!

    Did you upgrade or do a fresh installation?
    I did an upgrade.... Please don't tell me I need to do a fresh install... I have way too many programs and settings to redo everything!

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    Re: kill not working

    Can I ask why I should have done a fresh install instead of an upgrade? If Ubuntu works correctly, shouldn't an upgrade work just fine?

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    Re: kill not working

    I don't know why, but I'm not lucky on performing in-place distro upgrades. I usually update from one version to another by reinstalling the system. It's almost a ritual.
    I think some applications and binaries and settings are very dependent on the current version which can cause some weird errors etc.

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