Yeo. I've completely reverted the theme/icons/pointers to the default human theme. I'm getting the same end result: $ evolution ** (evolution:22388): WARNING **: Unexpected kerberos error -1765328164 ** (evolution:22388): WARNING **: Unexpected kerberos error -1765328164 ** (evolution:22388): DEBUG: mailto URL command: evolution %s ** (evolution:22388): DEBUG: mailto URL program: evolution (evolution:22388): Gtk-WARNING **: Could not find the icon 'lpi-help'. The 'hicolor' theme was not found either, perhaps you need to install it. You can get a copy from: http://icon-theme.freedesktop.org/releases ** (evolution:22388): CRITICAL **: failed to load icon 'lpi-help': Icon 'lpi-help' not present in theme (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_load_icon: assertion `error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed ** (evolution:22388): CRITICAL **: failed to load icon 'lpi-translate': Icon 'lpi-help' not present in theme (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_load_icon: assertion `error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed ** (evolution:22388): CRITICAL **: failed to load icon 'lpi-bug': Icon 'lpi-help' not present in theme (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_free: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_free: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_free: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_free: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_free: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_get_filename: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_free: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_get_filename: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed (evolution:22388): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_info_free: assertion `icon_info != NULL' failed ** (evolution:22388): DEBUG: EI: SHELL STARTUP GThread-ERROR **: file /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.20.1/gthread/gthread-posix.c: line 171 (g_mutex_free_posix_impl): error 'Device or resource busy' during 'pthread_mutex_destroy ((pthread_mutex_t *) mutex)' aborting... Aborted (core dumped) Along that note, when I ran evolution under valgrind, there were no icons in the gui... all boxes with the red x - regardless of gnome theme/setup. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Sebastien Bacher