[Evolution] Evolution Consistently Crashes at Startup

["David Kendig" <david_kendig ssaihq com>]

I upgraded my 1.2 Evolution to 1.4 and now it crashes everytime I start it.  I love evolution, but the 
upgrade process has stung me in the past too. I using Red Hat 9.0 and KDE.  The docs say that this should be 
no problem (although my icon is now gone and evolution does not show up on my KDE menu).  Now when I start up 
evolution from the command line I get this error:


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> evolution

(evolution:7633): evolution-shell-CRITICAL **: file e-storage-set.c: line 639 (e_storage_set_get_folder): 
assertion `g_path_is_absolute (path)' failed

gtkhtml-ERROR **: gconf error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted:
 CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0

aborting...
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Things I tried:

1) evolution --force-shutdown  (in case some weird file was left open)
2) removed my whole evolution directory, so it would be like a fresh install without my old configs
3) updated everything from red carpet evolution channel.

Nothing work.  Please, please, please.... anybody have any suggestions? 

Thanks

David Kendig
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