I upgraded another machine to the 2.32 version of evolution. That upgrade went okay. I noticed that when I first started evolution that I could see the 0% statuses at the bottom and then a pop-up window came us asking me to verify the SSL certificate. I clicked okay and everything started up fine.
On the machine that failed and hung on 0%, I remember thinking there might be a pop-up behind the window so I minimized the main window but I did not find a pop-up window. Maybe the problem was that there was a pop-up waiting for a response but the pop-up was not visible for some reason.

