Hi Roger, I have entered a bug report in the upstream project. Please see
this link for further info ...

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559153

Please let me know if you find a work-around!

Regards,

Peter

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Roger Lancefield <email address hidden>wrote:

> I have the same issue that Peter has described above. I copied my 46 MB
> Evolution backup (made on Hardy with all the latest updates applied) to
> a machine running a clean install of Intrepid and experienced similar
> events to those Peter has described.
>
> When attempting to start Evolution for the first time under Intrepid I
> used the application's initialization wizard to locate my backup and
> restore it. The result was a brief display of the following dialog:
>
> http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3003/3003590641_551257e899_o.png
>
> followed by the silent fail Peter describes above. All subsequent
> attempts to start Evolution have failed in the same way. The dialog box
> visible in the image above flashes (very) briefly, and Evolution dies
> silently. This issue has persisted across system restarts and I'm
> currently unable to start the Evolution client.
>
> I have the latest Intrepid updates installed as of the time (BST) and
> date visible in the system tray in the image.
>
> Regards to all
>
> (PS. Having no access to my mail, calendar or contacts under Intrepid
> means that the "Importance" status of this issue is definitely high, if
> not critical, for me.)
>
> --
> Conversion of existing mailboxes fails silently
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293207
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> of the bug.
>
> Status in "evolution" source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: evolution
>
> I have about 1.5 gigabytes in mail folders. Everything worked fine under
> Ubuntu 8.04. I backed up my mail through Evolution's backup function from
> the main menu of Evolution while still under 8.04. I then installed Ubuntu
> 8.10, brought up the new Evolution and attempted to restore from backup when
> prompted to do so under the new Evolution. The app would unpack the backup
> file and then proceed to attempt to convert the mailbox files from version
> 22 to 24 (sqlite). The conversion dialog would show a progress bar which
> constantly stayed at 0% although the name of the mailbox file being
> processed did change from time to time so there appeared to be some activity
> (i.e. it did not "freeze"). However it took an extraordinary amount of time.
> I let it run for 15 or more hours. Finally I checked it and the dialog box
> was gone. I attempted to bring up evolution again and this time the
> conversion dialog box was displayed immediately and it appeared to try to go
> through the conversion process yet again. I let if complete again (another
> 12-15 hours) and attempted to bring up evolution a third time. Again, the
> conversion dialog came up and the process began to repeat a third time. I
> killed evolution at that point and am filing this bug report.
>
> Again, note that there was no indication of error and that progress bar
> constantly remained at 0% throughout.
>
> I tried to run gconf and set the version number of the app to 2.24.0 as I
> read this was a work around that some folks had luck with but that did not
> help.
>
> I am now without the use of my primary mail application and have had to
> resort to using the web interface to my mail account at my ISP. Any
> assistance would be appreciated!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter Pavlovich
> <email address hidden>
>