FergyTech

I’ve run into this issue from time to time and I would normally have to reboot.  So; one day I said, “No more!  This is LINUX and I should be able to work around it.”  Oh!? What issue am I talking about?  When your GNOME panel gets stuck and there’s nothing you can do about it!  I’m going to show you how to kill your gnome-panel process and then restart it.  Note that it’s only a temporary solution – I know there’s a better way, but this will do for the time being.

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I’ve ran into this issue, from time to time, where I can’t access my graphical system monitoring tool (System Monitor) to kill processes. Luckily at that time I do have access to Terminal. The next question is, “Well; how do I view the processes running and how do I kill them?” Good question (I sound like a schizophrenic), let me tell you how to view your active processes, all processes, and how to MDK (murder death kill; Demolition Man reference) them.

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Quick Answer: Delete any related file ending in “.ev-summary” in the ~/.evolution/mail/local/ folder.  Make sure Evolution is closed before you do this.

Rant: Here’s my ordeal with this horrible error, at least to a noob in linux, like myself.  I couldn’t figure out why I was getting this error.  When I opened Evolution I would get a pop-up saying “Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync”.  I thought it was my mail stored on my server, I have 4 pop accounts and I ended up deleting all the old emails 500+ each (Yeah I’m a pack rat).  It was literally driving me crazy because it wanted to redownload ALL my old emails.

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