Comment # 5 on bug 1003822 from Olav Reinert

(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #4)
> (In reply to Olav Reinert from comment #3)
> From what I gather, shell dies because one of its mandatory panel items
> (shell-calendar) is not coming up properly
> 
> from what I gather, you can try:
> 
> rm -rf /home/olav/.cache/evolution

Doing this makes no difference - behavior at login remains unchanged.
Perhaps increasing the log level of GNOME would be informative?