Bug 134851

Summary:	evolution-data-server has achieved immortality
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Chris Lee <clee>
Component:	evolution-data-server	Assignee:	Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
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Description Chris Lee 2004-10-06 18:58:11 UTC

Description of problem: evolution-data-server fails to exit at the end
of the user's session.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libbonobo-2.8.0-2

How reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in to GNOME.
2. Start Evolution.
3. Log out.
4. Switch to a command-line with Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6] and log in as the
same user you logged in to GNOME as, and run 'ps x'
  
Actual results: evolution-data-server is still alive and well

Expected results: evolution-data-server should be dead and gone

Comment 1 Dave Malcolm 2004-10-18 22:01:49 UTC

I've filed some notes on this upstream here:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68533

Comment 2 Dave Malcolm 2004-10-20 07:03:19 UTC

I've added a workaround to e-d-s-1.0.2-3:

The problem is that there's a reference leak somewhere in the code,
filed upstream here:
http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68533

This reference leak means that when each calendar backend goes away, the
corresponding GObject doesn't get finalized; in particular there's a
calendar backend that generates events for the birthdays and
anniversaries of the people in your local addressbook - and this holds
open a reference to the local addressbook.  Hence the final addressbook
never goes away, and e-d-s outlives the session.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to track down the reference leak; so
I've gone for a workaround instead: as well as e-d-s going away when all
calendars and addressbooks have gone away, e-d-s should also now go away
in the case when there are no calendars open, and only a single
addressbook.

I don't _think_ it's possible to trigger this state via normal uses of
the packages, apart from when a shutdown is occurring that has been
blocked by the reference leak bug.

Comment 3 Dave Malcolm 2004-11-17 18:58:31 UTC

Resolving as DEFERRED - the symptoms of the bug are fixed, but fixing
the deeper problem will not happen in this release of the product.

Comment 4 Dave Malcolm 2004-12-02 00:41:38 UTC

Looks like there's another possible way to trigger these symptoms, described here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139834#c3