I just had this problem on 10.04 LTS. The workaround for me, from reading previous comments, was:
* Launch Evolution (freezes) * Kill evolution-alarm-notify (continues to load normally) * FIle -> Backup Settings... (Follow the procedure) "saving the backup causes Evolution to somehow clean up its indices, which solves the problem " Regards, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evolution in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365461 Title: Evolution hang on startup Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: evolution stemp@islons:~$ evolution evolution-shell-Message: Killing old version of evolution-data-server... ** (evolution:7537): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s ** (evolution:7537): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution ** (evolution:7537): DEBUG: EI: SHELL STARTUP ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: evolution 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evolution Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/365461/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
