Evolution crashed, won't restart

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 22:44 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> My evolution mail client crashed (while connecting to Exchange) and now I 
> can't get any evo component to start.  If I start from the taskbar, the 
> spinning cursor shows for a minute, then dies.  If I start from the 
> command line ("evolution --component=mail") it reports "CalDAV Eplugin 
> starting up ...", then seems to hang forever.  It doesn't matter what 
> component I try to start.
> 
> If I ^C the command-line start, no evo process shows, but after the 
> timeout from the taskbar start, a process shows running "evolution 
> --component=mail".  No window ever opens, though.
> 
> Is there a lock file someplace that needs to be deleted?  Or something 
> else?  Is ./.gconfd/saved_state the key, and if so, how can it be safely 
> repaired?  Can I repair it without losing data?
I can't find an obvious lock file associated with evolution.
However /var/log/mailog has some evolution related messages related to
the use of spamd with evolution. Also the yum.log will indicate when
evolution was last updated which might be useful if it was recently.
> 
> TIA.  I didn't have any e-mail there, but I really need my calendar back!
> 

> 
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