cvs2svn and binary files

Note to self:

When using cvs2svn (link seemed dead at time of this writing) to migrate a repository from CVS to Subversion (link seemed dead at time of this writing) on a repository that contains a lot of binaries (in particular, OpenOffice.org files and PDF’s and the like, give the --no-default-eol option to have Subversion treat the binaries correctly.

Evolution gives a CORBA error

If Evolution won’t start correctly and gives you error messages ending in:

CORBA error: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

Do a search on your whole harddisk for orbit-<username> and delete these directories. Took me 40 minutes to find out.