Re: [gentoo-user] evolution won't start

[Robert H. Haener IV]

I had the same problem with an existing installation of Evolution 1.2.4.  My problems started with Evolution taking an extremely long time to download the last message from a POP3 server (30 minutes on a cable modem connection).  A week after that incident, it did it again.  I canceled the mail retrieval, and Evolution froze.  I used xkill to kill Evolution, and the next time I started Evolution I had your problem.  Nothing fixed it, not even rebuilding everything I could think of related to Evolution (including rebuilding Evolution, and re-prelinking my entire system).  I gave up and used KMail for three days, leaving a copy of my messages on the server.  When I got near my server's quota, I tried Evolution again and it worked fine.  I've been using it for one week since without issue.  I have no idea what could be going on, I just hope the Evolution 1.4 ebuild stabilizes soon.

-Robert H. Haener IV