evolution-calendar-factory - Memory usage.?

Hi,

Sorry old dog, new tricks.
Whilst familiarising my self with Zorin, some of my Windows habits are kicking in...

I have a process running "evolution-calendar-factory", it stated at 19:45, I'm not using Evolution.
I don't remember starting it..? It's using 42MB of memory, it's over 10% of current memory usage.
It is present after a re-boot.

It's not in "Start up Applications" or listed in "Boot up Process" with BUM
I don't think it was there when I first installed. Googling reveals lots of results of bugs/crashes.

I found a command to kill it

Code:

sudo killall -9 evolution-calendar-factory


I'd prefer it did not start to begin with, Any ideas.?

Thanks... Dave

Hi Dave,

you can paste this command in a terminal then open "Startup Applications" which will now show all startup entries if you are still having problems with it, take out the tick in the box if it is indeed there.

Code:

sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

Regards Wolfman

Wolfman wrote:Hi Dave,

you can paste this command in a terminal then open "Startup Applications" which will now show all startup entries if you are still having problems with it, take out the tick in the box if it is indeed there.

Code:

sudo sed -i 's/NoDisplay=true/NoDisplay=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop

Regards Wolfman

Hi Wolfman,

Many Thanks...
That revealed a large number of "extra" items, unfortunately no "evolution-calendar-factory" or Evolution related items.
With some Googling I did however manger to diasble "11" applications and 12 still running.

Re-checked Bootup Manager, nothing there.

So it is being started by another means, and appears to just sit there,
eating resources, just waiting for maybe Evolution to be started..??

Dave

Hi Dave,

you can remove it if you don't need it!.

Open Synaptic and search for "evolution" and right click and mark for complete removal, don't panic if it states it wants to remove "gnome" as well.

Regards Wolfman

Wolfman wrote:Hi Dave,

you can remove it if you don't need it!.

Open Synaptic and search for "evolution" and right click and mark for complete removal, don't panic if it states it wants to remove "gnome" as well.

Regards Wolfman

Hi Wolfman,

Thanks, I did see a suggestion to do that,
((seems drastic, something in a config file must be starting it.?))
it also had the "warning" that it will remove "Gnome Panel"??
it stated that would have to be re-installed.?

Addition:
When I re-sorted the process panel(name wise),
there is also another, "evolution-source-registry" running, that's only using 2.8MB

Dave

I have just been looking around the web and I think the two rogue startup entries are somehow connected to the evolution-data-server - when I selected 'remove' in Synaptic it advised me a whole lot of other stuff would go - including Thunderbird support! Poor design of Ubuntu that needs a non-present application to function!

Swarfendor437 wrote:I have just been looking around the web and I think the two rogue startup entries are somehow connected to the evolution-data-server - when I selected 'remove' in Synaptic it advised me a whole lot of other stuff would go - including Thunderbird support! Poor design of Ubuntu that needs a non-present application to function!

Hi,
Yes...this is almost M$ like behaviour, not Linux.
So do you have these things present/running.?

There must be a config somewhere that is triggering these to start at boot up...But where.?

I'm sure these where not present just after I installed.?
Maybe when working through apps I launched something.?
I do know for sure I have "not" launched Evolution it'self

Dave

This is what I found whilst duckduckgo'ing:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1492723

Swarfendor437 wrote:This is what I found whilst duckduckgo'ing:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1492723

Hi,
Interesting thread... So a complete removal of Evolution
mmm.
But it still does not answer... Why these 2 things are running
I may do a complete fresh install, see if they are present from install.
I can't believe I'm the only person with these running, and never opened Evolution..?

Thanks... Dave

Hi,

I removed Evolution with no adverse effects to my system whatsoever!. As I said before, it removes the package Gnome but like I said before, it is nothing to fear as this is not the main body of the Gnome DE as you might be led to believe!.

See also:

http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article8/u ... ta-package

http://askubuntu.com/questions/65858/ho ... tor-applet

Regards Wolfman

Wolfman wrote:Hi,

I removed Evolution with no adverse effects to my system whatsoever!. As I said before, it removes the package Gnome but like I said before, it is nothing to fear as this is not the main body of the Gnome DE as you might be led to believe!.

See also:

http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article8/u ... ta-package

http://askubuntu.com/questions/65858/ho ... tor-applet

Regards Wolfman

Hi Wolfman,

Which method did you use.?, There seems to be various.?

Did you then re-install any Gnome components.?

The 2nd link seemed to be about removing just the little notifier/envelope.

Thanks... Dave

What I would do is backup any crucial data which is what I will do before giving it a try!

Swarfendor437 wrote:What I would do is backup any crucial data which is what I will do before giving it a try!

Hi Swarfendor437,

So I did a clean install, guess what... They are both present.
I must have missed/overlooked them last time.

I have found where they are enabled
Date & Time > Clock "Evolution" is ticked, [X]
But it is greyed out so you unable to disable.
That seems like a build/config issue.?
Why enable something like that by default.?

I wonder if doing the full evolution un-install removes that tick.?

I need to get my Install all configured & back to where it(I) was.
Then do an image for safe keeping, even with the unwanted Evolution items.

Dave

I think that thread I pointed to you indicates that it has to be present for Date and Time to work - which is bad planning on Ubuntu's part as they couldn't be bothered to write a separate application for that. Will be interesting to delve into non-Ubuntu OS's and forks as to what is running on them!

Swarfendor437 wrote:I think that thread I pointed to you indicates that it has to be present for Date and Time to work - which is bad planning on Ubuntu's part as they couldn't be bothered to write a separate application for that. Will be interesting to delve into non-Ubuntu OS's and forks as to what is running on them!

Hi Swarfendor437,

Well not a lot I(we) can do...
I honestly don't remember it running on LM16 .??

Cheers
Dave